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WLMP DROPOUTS? The battle over the Army's Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program escalated by Rep. James Talent (RMo.), who added language to the House fiscal 2000 Defense Department authorization bill that essentially puts the program on hold for two years has started to take industry casu
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Navy taps Comsat for satellite communications
The Navy tapped Comsat Mobile Corp. for a $112 million contract to provide global, highspeed data services to aircraft carriers and to amphibious ships that transport Marine expeditionary units.
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Senate lambastes DOD IT
The Senate this month sharply criticized the Pentagon's business practices and information systems, calling them 'ineffective,' and urged the Defense Department to reform how it develops systems and improve its financial and information management. In its report on the fiscal 2000 Defense authoriza
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Army saves on laptops
At a time when most other federal organizations have bypassed traditional contracts in favor of streamlined procurements, the Army last week awarded two conventional contracts that will reduce its cost of buying laptop computers by more than 50 percent. The winning bids submitted by GTSI and Intell
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EXIT CLEMINS. Adm. Archie Clemins, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet and the originator and chief backer of the Navy's IT21 project, plans to retire Dec. 1, according to an email message he sent to his friends and staff. President Clinton has nominated Vice Adm. Thomas Fargo, currently serv
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Turning to the troops
(This is the second in a series of articles looking at Defense Department efforts to bring new technology to the battlefield.) FORT HOOD, Texas 1st Lt. Scott Gregory Trahan, a platoon commander here in the 4th Infantry Division, talks enthusiastically about how the computers in all the Bradley I
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Cole sails IT-21 to Seventh Fleet
ABOARD THE USS BLUE RIDGE Cmdr. Pat Cole, fleet information systems officer for the Navy's Seventh Fleet, knows all too well the problems and difficulties involved in translating the grand vision of the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) project into reality. 'No one has
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Army taps two for $90M laptop pact
GTSI and Intelligent Decisions Inc. won a contract valued at $90 million to provide the Army with portable computers over the next three years.
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Outsourcing pact back under fire
A Republican congressman has attached an amendment to a Defense Department spending bill that could derail the Pentagon's efforts to save billions of dollars by outsourcing operations of information technology support services to commercial contractors. Observers said the amendment, attached to the
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LOGISTICS CZAR? The House version of the 20002001 Defense authorization bill calls for the establishment of a director of defense logistics, empowered with broad Title 10 oversight. (That's the portion of the U.S. Code that defines the roles and missions of the Office of the Secretary of Defense a
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DOD buried under
Software problems have delayed the fullscale deployment of a computer system that the Pentagon plans to use to buy everything from staples to submarines in an electronic, paperless environment an initiative that top Defense Department officials want functional by January 2000. The $326 million S
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Park Service puts R&R resources on Web
The arrival of spring means that practically everyone's favorite time of year vacation sits right around the corner. For many families, summer vacation includes a visit to a national park. ParkNet, the World Wide Web site of the National Park Service (www.nps.gov), definitely reduces the effort
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Amendment may scrap Army's WLMP plans
An amendment attached to the fiscal 2000 Defense Department authorization bill could come close to scuttling the Army's plans to proceed with a $1 billion effort to modernize and outsource the service's wholesale logistics operations.
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Visio wins DOD BPA
Visio Corp. said it signed a $10.7 million, twoyear blanket purchase agreement with the Navy covering the company's line of technical drawing and diagramming software designed to help develop and manage information systems. The new Visio contract will be open to all military services and Defense D
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Navy preps intranet, smart cards
Norfolk, Va. The Navy continues to evaluate the costs for its global intranet with an eye toward kicking off contracting this summer and also has decided to use smart card technology as a 'cyberidentity' for allowing entry into buildings and secure networks, according to speakers here at the se
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Norfolk, Va. NEW DASN C4I NEEDED. Dr. Anne Miller resigned earlier this month as deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for C4I, a move that was somewhat of a 'surprise,' according to Navy CIO Dan Porter, speaking here at the Navy Connecting Technology Conference. Miller, who has taken an inform
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Pentagon confirms 'nuisance' cyberattacks
The Pentagon identified what it called nuisancelevel attacks against its World Wide Web sites that resemble the attacks by Chinese hackers against sites operated by the departments of Energy and Interior earlier this week.
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Navy: DOD must balance Y2K preparation, public perception
The Defense Department must be careful to prepare for possible Year 2000 problems while at the same time not alarming the public, a top Navy official said.
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Microsoft probes Unix territory
Microsoft Corp., making an unprecedented foray into Sun Microsystems Inc. territory, is scrambling to put together a Unix version of its messaging software after being shut out of the Army's strategic program for deploying commercial hardware and software to the battlefield. The Army has chosen to
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