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DOD: Face Y2K on your own
The Defense Department, expected to be the federal agency to respond to potential crises brought about by the Year 2000 problem, this month said it does not plan to react to all requests for help from state and local civilian authorities. DOD adopted the position in an Aug. 12 message sent to all t
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NOAA uses GPS to measure monument height
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week used a hightech tape measure to help it determine whether the Washington Monument is going to turn into the Leaning Tower of Washington. NOAA began a measurement project last week in cooperation with the National Park Service, which is
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NOAA measuring Washington Monument using GPS
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration kicked off a survey today to determine within centimeters the exact height of the Washington Monument and whether it has sunk or listed to one side.
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WLMP BIDDING CLOSED. The Army has closed bidding on its besieged billiondollarplus Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program. I hear that only Computer Sciences Corp. and Raytheon Co. submitted offers on a project that could stay tied up for years by Congress which is willing to cut jobs anywh
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Army awards 2nd piece for logistics redo
The Army last week awarded a $248 million, fiveyear contract to Symbol Technologies Inc. for a system to track and manage supplies and parts as they move from the warehouse to the field, regardless of where in the world either may be. The Automated Identification Technologies II contract will prov
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A matter of good timing
Dennis McCarthy stood in front of the Master Clock time display at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., looked at his watch and again at the display and declared his watch 40 seconds fast. Most folks would accept a 40second deviation, but not McCarthy, who serves as director of the Dire
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Lockheed Martin plans $2B satellite system
Lockheed Martin Corp. plans to spend $2 billion on a worldwide satellite system designed to complement the Global Positioning System and other systems designed to ensure the integrity and availability of GPS signals for air navigation such as the Federal Aviation Administration's new GPSbased navi
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Army awards $248 million ID contract
The Army awarded a $248 million contract Tuesday to Symbol Technologies Inc. to field and deploy a wide range of automatic identification devices including bar code readers, magnetic stripe cards and radio frequency tags to track supplies and parts for Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine users worldwide.
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Navy outlines $2B intranet program
Last week the Navy kicked off its plans to develop, acquire and deploy by the end of 2001 a highspeed intranet to serve 700,000 users at 300 onshore sites at a cost estimated as high as $2 billion. Joe Cipriano, the Navy's new program executive officer for information technology, said the Navy/Mar
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DOD puts vast nets to Y2K test
The Defense Department this week will complete what it described as 'the largest simultaneous Year 2000 test of information systems in the world' as part of a series of endtoend tests of how the Pentagon's missioncritical systems will operate after Dec. 31. The current series of tests focuses on
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GTE wins $400M net support deal
The Defense Information Systems Agency now has two support and engineering contracts to tap, thanks to the recent award of a $400 million contract to support the agency's worldwide networks. Awarded last month to GTE Corp., the new contract also will provide the agency with an integrated network ma
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BOEING CLOSE CALL. DISA 'seriously considered' not exercising its options beyond the second year of the twoyear $2 billion DISN Support ServicesGlobal (DSSG) contract held by Boeing Information Services, a top agency official told the Interceptor. The contract was awarded in 1996. The official a
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Navy puts intranet on fast track
The Navy plans to develop, procure and deploy an intranet to serve 700,000 Navy and Marine Corps users in the United States by 2001.
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Army jump-starts $1B global services buy
The Army has kicked off a systems integration and engineering procurement worth up to $1 billion that will provide Army installations and operations worldwide with the talent and expertise required to develop and maintain secure, stateoftheart global information technology systems. Total Enginee
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Small firm wins Army MTS pact
Comtech Mobile Datacom, which has 18 employees and annual revenues of $40 million, has bested a competitive field of bluechip aerospace companies and systems integrators to win a $418 million contract to develop the Army's Movement Tracking System (MTS). Comtech Mobile Datacom, a Germantown, Md.,
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FEEDING FRENZY. An industry briefing that will kick off the acquisition process for the Naval Intranet (NI) this Wednesday should attract a huge crowd of systems integrators, telecom providers and PC vendors. The Navy has booked the commodious (despite its name) Little Hall at the Quantico, Va., Ma
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Hill freezes GPS funds
Congressional concern about a Federal Aviation Administration program has the potential to jeopardize civilian and Defense Department initiatives based on the satellitebased Global Positioning System. In fiscal 2000 Transportation Department appropriations bills, the House and the Senate have kill
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Navy kicks off radical intranet buy
The Navy plans to use a radical strategy to build its much anticipated megaintranet, which will provide 450,000 users worldwide with items ranging from PCs to communications pipes and could cost as much as $2.2 billion. In an industry briefing set for July 7, the Navy plans to back what it describ
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Navy eases shipboard purchasing
The Navy Supply Systems Command has upgraded its standard logistics software and communications program to enable deployed ships to electronically sign government credit card invoices, allowing those ships to avoid paying interest on late payments. This upgrade to the Navy's Standard Automated Logi
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