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Some Army Web sites to go dark
In the wake of its decision last week to shut down all 998 of its publicly accessible World Wide Web sites, the Army expects that some of those sites will remain offline permanently. Chris Unger, an information systems specialist who serves as Webmaster for the Army home page, said he believes that
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DISA DOSIDO. Although Army Lt. Gen. Dave Kelley theoretically has a year to go in his tour as Defense Information Systems Agency director, I've picked up signals that Army Lt. Gen. William Campbell, currently the Army widget and communications chief, will succeed Kelley at Courthouse Road and s
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Navy tech aids Swissair search
To help locate debris from Swissair Flight 111, which crashed off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, earlier this month, the Navy has dispatched an experimental underwater minedetection system far more capable than the Navy system used for searchandrecovery operations following the crash of TWA Flight 8
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Pentagon says attack on blood data banks 'simulated'
A Defense Department Red Team,'' not real hackers, mounted a simulated attack last year on DOD medical databases containing blood type information, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman.
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Look for Scott Randall and the Global Information and Network System team at the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Command to award the Information Technology for the 21st Century shipboard local-area network contract this week, not quite meeting its schedule, which called for an award last week. Vendors bidding on the $100 million-plus job -- Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., GTE, Lucent Technologies and Science Applications International Corp. -- view the contract as an absolutely essential piece of business, an opinion that could lead to a lot of whining by the losers.
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DOD to begin Iridium tests
The Defense Department plans to start operation of its gateway to the Iridium LLC mobile satellite system this week, despite glitches that will delay full commercial service until November.
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DOD melds IT buying
Top Pentagon officials have put in motion a plan to replace a hodgepodge of information technology contracts scattered throughout the Defense Department with enterprise licensing agreements that could drastically cut DOD's software costs for all 2.2 million users in DOD.
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Satellite vendors line up for $4B DOD net buy
Satellite carriers jockeying for position to bid on the Defense Department's $4 billion procurement for wideband network service in the Pacific and Caribbean contend that satellite transmission, not fiber-optic cable, can best satisfy the Pentagon's requirements.
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DOD reels in content on Web sites
Concerned about the security risks posed by the availability of some types of information on the World Wide Web, the Defense Department has begun to pull pages from its Web sites while top DOD officials carry out a department-wide review.
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Air Force discusses its networking woes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. The Air Force will revamp its network and systems operations in the coming years, with plans calling for everything from outsourcing more than 10,000 jobs in the information technology work force to adopting hardware and software standards and integrating worldwide networks into
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Feds brace Web sites for Starr report traffic
Federal computer specialists last week struggled to prepare World Wide Web sites to manage an onslaught from the public trying to access the hottest document in Internet history Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress on President Clinton. Hours before the expected release of the 4
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EIA says cost to fix Y2K bug will hit $6B
Less than a week after the Clinton administration estimated it would cost $5.4 billion to fix the millennium bug in tens of thousands of federal computer systems, a key industry group predicted the total cost would be more than 10 percent greater. Gerald Harvey, head of the group that conducted the
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SPAWAR RAIDERS REPELLED. Rear Adm. John Gauss and his Spawar crew continue to try to raid key personnel from the Defense Information Systems Agency based on reports I picked up last week. The most recent raid for a key civilian official at DISA HQ failed, I'm told, leading to speculation that the S
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GIS helps sweep Hawaiian island
HONOLULU The Navy has launched an unprecedented datagathering and management effort to help coordinate restoration of a Hawaiian island rich in archaeological and cultural treasures that was ravaged by nearly 50 years of bombing and shelling carried out in U.S. target practice. The Navy is requi
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PC vendors wage price war
MONTGOMERY, Ala. With more than a bit of showbiz flair, PC vendors at the annual Air Force Information Technology Conference here kicked off the last, key month of the federal buying season with a price war. Compared with last year, when competition faded due to the disappearance of Zenith Data
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MONTGOMERY, ALA. SILICON SOUTH? The Standard Systems Group, headquartered here, managed once again to turn this sleepy southern capital into a hightech Mecca during the annual Air Force Information Technology Conference, luring both Michael Dell of Dell Computer Corp. and Scott McNealy from Sun
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AF plans rapid ramp-up of DMS client deployment
MONTGOMERY, Ala. The Air Force has completed the installation of more than half of its Defense Message System's unclassified infrastructure and expects a quick ramp up in the number of desktops equipped with client software based on Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange. Speaking last week at the Air Force
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Navy to award IT-21 contract for ship LANs
The Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) project, which will enable the Navy to harness the power of commercial networks and computers aboard ships and ashore, will move closer to reality next week with the award of a key contract for shipboard localarea networks. Capt. Tim Traverso
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