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Army increases stake in battlefield digitization
The Army's fiscal 2000 budget calls for $2.8 billion for its battlefield digitization program, which is designed to connect armored vehicles, helicopters and even individual soldiers on the battlefields of the 21st century using advanced communications and computing technology.
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DOD budget goes digital
The Pentagon has not yet reduced its annual budget to a simple computerized spreadsheet, but the Defense Department plans to use the World Wide Web as its preferred method of distribution for its fiscal 2000 budget, due for release on Monday.
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Web links forces with families, services
The Navy today launched a program that uses the World Wide Web to make it possible for Navy and Marine personnel deployed away from home to talk with family or to take advantage of counseling, training and other Defense Department human resources services.
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Navy intranet stakes raised
The Navy's top officer last week raised the stakes in the service's pursuit to build an intranet to link half a million Navy users around the world by 2001.
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DEGEEKING. I have my famed Interceptor mobile unit in San Diego this week for the West '99 conference sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and the Naval Institute, where the hot buzz is the Navywide intranet, not the Naval Virtual Intranet. The Navy's Spawar Com
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Top Navy chief calls IT key to operations
Advanced communications networks have become essential to the Navy's operational primacy,'' according to the Navy's top officer, who today called for development and deployment of a Navywide intranet to link half a million users around the world by 2001.
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Navy still has sights set on own intranet
Top Navy officials today continued to push for speedy development of a naval worldwide intranet that would tie together terminals at all naval installations and on deployed ships in one seamless network.
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Y2K pushes U.S., Russia to work on warning center for nukes
The Pentagon plans to dispatch a team to Russia next week to work on a shared earlywarning center designed to preclude any accidental launch of missiles brought on by a Year 2000 bug in nuclear command and control systems.
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Hamre asserts DOD will be ready for Y2K
A top Defense Department official said today that DOD will have all of its 2,304 missioncritical computer systems Year 2000 ready by Dec. 31.
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DOD to stage governmentwide Y2K exercises
The Defense Department plans to conduct a series of exercises over the next several months to determine how it can best help other government agencies manage any breakdown in the power grid and other critical systems due to Year 2000related computer problems.
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Pentagon: "DOD will be ready for Year 2000"
The Pentagon, criticized for lagging in its effort to fix its computers for the Year 2000 bug, plans to announce at a press briefing tomorrow that it will have missioncritical computer systems ready for the new millennium.
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DIGIT INSPECTION. C4I folks don't have a lot of troops, tanks or aircraft to inspect, so Air Force Lt. Gen. John Woodward, the new Joint Staff J6, did not at first evince much surprise when, a few weeks into his job as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Henry Shelton told him to '
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IT to miss out on Clinton's DOD budget boost, GEIA says
Little of President Clinton's proposed fiveyear, $110 billion increase in the Defense Department's budget will immediately flow down to specific information technology programs, according to an analysis released last week by the Government Electronics Industries and Information Technology Association (GEIA).
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Navy: GBS back on track
The Navy said it has fixed problems that delayed deployment of a broadband satellite communications system designed to feed hundreds of channels of information to command ships, carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups constantly on station in potential world hot spots. The delay in deploy
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Boeing IT group on the block
Boeing Corp. quietly has tried to sell Boeing Information Services for at least the past three months, sources inside and outside the company confirmed last week. FCW has learned that Boeing has shopped its federal services business to a number of rival firms, including CACI Inc., Computer Sciences
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DOD questions international spectrum fees
The Defense Department wants to ensure it has the worldwide access to the radio spectrum needed to support battle operations, but the Pentagon's top communications official indicated today that DOD no longer wants to pay for its spectrum access abroad.
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Vendors bid brand names for Army PC-3
In a battle of brand names that echoes consumer PC advertising, at least five and possibly up to nine industry teams have submitted bids for the Army's Personal Computer3 contract, valued in the $200 million to $300 million range and due for award early next year. The Army CommunicationsElectroni
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Sprint wins FTS 2001, Part 1
The General Services Administration on Friday awarded Sprint the first of two contracts under the $5 billion FTS 2001 program, a move likely to reduce prices and shift many agencies to new providers. Dennis Fischer, commissioner of GSA's Federal Technology Service (FTS), said he expects the new Spr
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