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'Zulu' hour at Pacific Fleet uneventful
Key command and control systems used by the U.S. Pacific Command at its headquarters in Oahu, Hawaii, transitioned to the Zulu New Year, or midnight Greenwich Mean Time, with no Year 2000 date code problems.
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Navy's 7th Fleet in Japan rings in Y2K OK
Computer systems for the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in Yokosuka, Japan, clicked over to the Year 2000 with no problems ashore or afloat.
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DOD's key command system clears Y2K hurdle
The Defense Department's Global Command and Control System (GCCS) as we
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FAA installing last-minute Y2K patch
The Federal Aviation Administration started a rush project today to fix an undetected Year 2000 software glitch at the 21 en route air traffic control centers across the country.
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DOD to monitor bases worldwide
The United States and Russia have installed seven redundant communications links between national leaders in Washington and Moscow to ensure communications during the Year 2000 rollover, according to a message from the U.S. Defense Attache Office (DAO) in Moscow obtained by FCW.
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NSA playing IT catch-up
The director of the National Security Agency has called for a sweeping overhaul of the super-secret agency's management and information systems to bring it up-to-date with the exploding pace of change in telecommunications and information technology. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden is calling for
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PCs, laptops, GPS help find missing
Honolulu To fulfill their mandate to identify and return the remains of the Americans still missing in action from the Vietnam War, the selfdescribed 'jungle detectives' assigned to a task force to look for the remains rely heavily on a database that contains the records of all 2,043 Americans
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Another Delay in WLMP? My Fort Monmouth, N.J., antenna site has picked up mediumstrength signals that Army Cecom may delay award of the $1 billion Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program contract until Dec. 27, which should make a good postholiday present for the winner of the two remaining bid
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DOD thanks low-tech 'code talkers' for WWII service
The Pentagon honored one of the few unbreakable forms of encryption the Commanche language, which was used by a special unit of American Indian code talkers in World War II during an award ceremony honoring Charles Chibitty, the last survivor of that elite Army unit.
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IT fills in puzzle of Korean, Vietnam War MIAs
For years, the remains of the last 13 men killed in the Vietnam War?immortalized on the bottom of the last panel of "the Wall" in Washington, D.C.?have lain unidentified on a table in a nondescript building here at Hickham Air Force Base.
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HONOLULU THE 438TON PROBLEM. The Army Signal Command shipped 438 tons of communications gear, bought during the Cold War, from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to support peacekeeping operations in East Timor. My mobile Intercept unit, out here for the annual AFCEA AsiaPacific conference, has picked up s
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Bases in Pacific gobble bandwidth
HONOLULU A voracious appetite for bandwidth has nearly overwhelmed a recently launched Defense Department program here to double the capacity of the cables that handle phone calls and Internet service for military personnel stationed throughout the Pacific Ocean. In April, the Defense Informatio
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Voice-over-IP net goes live
Honolulu Companies for several years have promoted the idea of placing telephone calls over the Internet, but they have found few takers because of poor connections and even worse audio quality. Now, Nortel Networks has landed a precedentsetting contract to replace traditional telephone service
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Vets take on Knife 31 IDs: Semper Fidelis
Randall Austin, who commanded the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marine Regiment during the Mayaguez rescue, described the four-year effort to recover and identify the crew and passengers of the Air Force helicopter shot down during the rescue as living up to the spirit of the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis, Always Faithful.
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Identities of MIAs await confirmation by consultants
The Army's Central Identification Laboratory today emphasized that it will not complete the identification process for the last combatants killed in the Vietnam War until outside review boards approve the case files developed by lab scientists and anthropologists.
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Pacom to build digital radio net
The U.S. Pacific Command (Pacom) plans to develop interagency digital radio networks for an emergency response network to serve the federal government and state and local police and fire departments in Alaska and Hawaii making it the largest project of its kind. Pacom decided to develop the Pacif
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Navy missile range taps Sun to prevent data loss
The Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility, which relies on advanced instruments to test missiles at a range located off a Hawaiian island shore, recently purchased a faulttolerant Sun Microsystems Inc. computer system to prevent the loss of valuable test data. The missile range, headquartered at t
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NewAge Army? In the process of reinventing itself into a lighter and more quickly deployable force, the Army has decided to use the troops at Fort Lewis, Wash., as the test bed for new concepts, equipment and tactics. The Army named Maj. Gen. James Dubik to spearhead the effort and gave him a titl
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Y2K freeze
After spraying for bugs, you don't open the doors and windows. That's the advice the federal government has decided to follow with the Year 2000 bug. Many agencies, having spent billions of dollars fixing missioncritical systems for the Year 20000 computer problem, have barred or severely restrict
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