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The Interceptor has folded his antennas for the next month to take some muchneeded R&R overseas. In the interim, the FCW staff has erected new dishes to intercept the latest talk on the street at the Defense Department and civilian agencies. Y2K TAR BABY. If you haven't heard all the Republican ja
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Civilian links the fleet's users
Civil engineers as a rule do not glamorize the tools of their trade. Bulldozers, for example, hold a fascination for small boys but are simply very large machines that are capable of moving large amounts of earth more efficiently than a shovel. Similarly, Monica Shepherd, who worked as a Navy civil
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Drop anchor at Navy's Y2K site
Anyone wrestling with the Year 2000 problem in the federal government would do well to drop by the Navy Department's Year 2000 World Wide Web site (www.doncio.navy.mil/y2k/year2000.htm). The site offers a cornucopia of general links to Year 2000 information as well as links specifically related to
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FIRST, BUILD AN INFRASTRUCTURE. That seems to be the motto of all the folks involved in the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) game. The nascent federal CIP effort already has spawned a highly complex bureaucracy and a new alphabet soup of acronyms, reaching from the National Security Council
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Visiting Naval Observatory page is time well spent
To synchronize your watch to official U.S. time, visit the home page of the Time Service Department at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
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Cyberattacks leave feds chasing 'vapor'
Top administration officials last week warned that the United States lacks the capability to quickly identify the nature and scope of a continuing series of cyberattacks against both federal and private systems that support the country's telecommunications, financial and energy critical infrastruc
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Satcom price war brews
Government will pay 'the most favorable rates in the world' for phone calls placed over the $5 billion Iridium LLC mobile satellite system (MSS) that starts operation this September, according to the company's top government and industrial marketing manager. Meanwhile, a top executive of Qualcomm I
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DOD in never-ending cyberwar
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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DISN price hike/desertion? That was the buzz at last week's AFCEA TechNet show, where service and industry officials predicted the agency will need to impose stiff rate increases in fiscal 1999 for users throughout DOD on the agency's premier DISN network. These rate increases stem from accounting
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Beefed-up command and control system doubles soldiers' battlefield vision
The newest version of the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) recently fielded by the Defense Information Systems Agency nearly doubles the number of friendly or enemy forces that a user can view, according to a top DISA official.
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Army, Congress at odds over WLMP
The Army and Congress remain at loggerheads on the service's $1 billion project to outsource key portions of the Wholesale Logistics Modernization Program (WLMP), with Capitol Hill vowing to stop the program and the Army planning to proceed.
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OMB drops three on Year 2000 tier
The departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Interior have slowed in their efforts to fix Year 2000 problems in the past three months, according to officials familiar with a draft report by the Office of Management and Budget.
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Fifth-graders pick Navy ship's name
A new Navy hightech research ship that will map the world's oceans will be named USNS Bruce Heezen, which was the winning entry from a class of nine fifthgraders from Oak Lawn Elementary School, Cranston, R.I.
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NEAT computer tracks asteroids
NASA astronomers soon will begin using a new computer and data analysis hardware to double their efforts to find and track asteroids that may have orbits that come close to Earth.
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U.S. to share Y2K nuclear data
The Pentagon plans to share data with the world's other nuclear powers to ensure that the Year 2000 millennium bug does not lead to an accidental nuclear exchange.
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House adds $1.6 billion to DOD Y2K funding
The House Appropriations Committee pumped an extra $1.6 billion in emergency funding into the Defense Department's efforts to fix the Year 2000 problem in its thousands of computer systems and to enhance computer security.
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U.S. in never-ending war in cyberspace
The pace and intensity of cyberattacks against Defense Department computers and networks has increased so much that the Pentagon now considers itself continually at war.
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Due to the inexorable ticking of the millennium clock, the Pentagon would prefer not to submit monthly Year 2000 progress reports to either the Office of Management and Budget or Capitol Hill, Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week.
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Spectrum sale threatens key comm network
The mandated sale of federal radio frequencies has clouded the future of a key communications system in Hawaii used by federal, state and local agencies as well as the boating public.
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