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IETF weighing new wiretapping standards
The ad hoc group that manages the operation and future development of the Internet today will consider the adoption of new standards to make it easier for the FBI and law enforcement agencies worldwide to eavesdrop on the world's fastest growing communications medium.
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DOD selects MCI for $4B telecom pact
MCI WorldCom last week captured one of the biggest federal telecommunications prizes, a Defense Department contract that could be worth up to $4 billion to provide service to U.S. forces operating over 52 million square miles in the Pacific, Indian and Caribbean oceans. Industry sources speculated
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Breaking the mold
Maj. Charles Wells, developer of two online knowledgesharing projects for the Army, is not your typical Army computer expert. Wells' background, career, motivations and avocations quickly prove that few people, even in the Army, fit into a stereotype. For example, one of the musical instruments he
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LONDON KOSOVO CLEAN SWEEP. Spacelink International, a small, privately held company based in Washington, D.C., but focused on Europe, has captured most of the military commercial satellite Earth terminal business in Kosovo, according to strong signals my mobile unit picked up here at TechNet Eur
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DOD awards MCI WorldCom with wideband contract
The Defense Department has awarded MCI WorldCom Inc. a contract worth up to $2 billion to provide wideband telecommunications services to U.S. forces based throughout the Pacific and Asia.
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Lawmakers warn Clinton: Boost Defense technology funding or else
Close to 100 members of Congress joined a bipartisan coalition urging President Clinton to boost funding for Defense Department science programs, warning him in a letter that the continued longterm erosion of defense science and technology will have a devastating impact on the future capability of the armed forces of the United States.''
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Navy issues warning on Y2K Trojan horse
The Navy Computer Incident Response Team warned Navy and Marine Corps computer users worldwide that an email attachment masquerading as a utility to check a system's readiness for the Year 2000 date rollover could contain a virus.
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Army deals offer DOD price breaks
The Army Small Computer Program last month closed out the fiscal year by signing two enterprise licensing agreements, offering Defense Department customers significant price breaks on key management software packages. The new licensing agreements, the latest in a series of such deals with major sof
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A clickable Army
The Army's top soldier plans what he calls a 'major transformation' of the service from a tankheavy force designed to fight the Soviet Army on the plains of Europe into a lightweight deployable machine capable of quick response anywhere on the globe, relying heavily on technology to cut the fat. G
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TRADOC Tanked? The Fort Eustis, Va.based Training and Doctrine Command, headed by Gen. John Abrams, could end up a big loser in terms of funding and personnel in the sweeping 'transformation'' of the Army announced by Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki last week. A knowledgeable Army Pentagon source sai
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Civilian IT pay thwarts Army
The Army has kicked off an intensive project to determine how to better recruit and retain uniformed and civilian personnel in the highly competitive information technology field, with top leadership and soldiers in the trenches conceding that the Army cannot compete with the civilian marketplace i
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Congress cuts funds for life-saving radio
ongress slashed $20 million from the Pentagon's budget for a radio designed to help downed pilots stranded behind enemies lines call for help as well as automatically pinpoint their position and relay that information to rescue aircraft.
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Army moving forward on logistics modernization contract
The Army plans to award a contract in early December to outsource the operation of a major portion of its logistics system, now that the service has cleared the last procedural log jam standing in the way of its $1 billion logistics modernization program
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Army mulls cutting tanks in favor of lighter, high-tech force
Gen. Eric Shinseki, chief of staff of the Army, today called for a major transformation of the Army within the next decade that could include an abandonment of all tracked vehicles in favor of a lean fighting force that relies heavily on command, control and communications technology.
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Caldera denies union appeal to block logistics outsourcing
The Army has removed the last procedural hurdle standing in the way of its longdelayed $1 billion project to outsource its wholesale logistics system.
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11th Signal Brigade to provide comm support in East Timor
The Army Signal Command, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., will deploy 120 soldiers from its 11th Signal Brigade to provide communications support to U.N. forces operating in East Timor, with the first contingent leaving today at 1 p.m. MDT.
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Congress eliminates funding for new civilian GPS signal
Despite objections by the Clinton administration, Congress this week passed a Transportation Department spending bill that eliminates all funding for a new highprecision satellite signal for use by civilian users of the Global Positioning System.
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DOD gives medical systems clean bill of health
The Defense Department successfully completed an endtoend Year 2000 test of the computer systems in its Medical Health Care System and found no failures due to bad Year 2000 date code.
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Navy: Y2K will cause few waves
The Navy expects Year 2000 computer problems to result in few, if any incidents that would requite a heightened state of readiness, according to a Navywide message from Adm. Jay Johnson, Chief of Naval Operations.
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