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* Rocket mail. Not every PC vendor in the federal market develops a marketing campaign that gains the instant attention of a fourstar general. Raytheon did so last month with a mailing designed to convey in a dramatic way its acquisition of the former Hughes Data Systems and the Air Force Desktop
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Raytheon backs off plan to sell AF IDIQ contracts
Concerned about damaging its relationship with the Air Force, Raytheon Co. has decided, at least for the present, to continue to service the contracts it acquired when it purchased Hughes Electronics, including the Desktop V and Air Force Workstations contracts. The company reportedly abandoned eff
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Navy IT food fight. My oldtown San Diego mobile unit has picked up strong signals that Rear Adm. John Gauss, the new Spawar commander, has ambitious plans to corral most if not all of the Navy's IT budget. This plan, I'm told, includes Spawar absorbing the Naval Computer and Telecommunications
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IT as vital to military as ships, tanks
SALT LAKE CITY Top Defense Department information officers believe that information technology and computerized weapons will determine winners and losers of future battles, making software as much a component of national defense as the newest ship, fighter or tank. Information officers gathered h
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A (four) star shines at Army command
Gen. Johnny Wilson, the commander of the Army Materiel Command (AMC), talks about the Army and his 37year career with a passion and intensity that would make a recruiter proud. Wilson has good reason for such passion; he's the only black man to make it all the way from a private to the highest ran
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Pentagon denies hackers penetrated secret nets
Despite recent claims by an international hacking group that it accessed and obtained classified information from a Defense Department network, DOD officials last week strongly denied that the group penetrated classified networks or obtained classified information. A group calling itself Masters of
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Raytheon looks to sell IT pacts
The Air Force Desktop V contract the latest in a decadeold series of contracts that helped propel the Defense Department into the PC age has been put on the block by its prime contractor, which is shopping it to a collection of resellers and manufacturers. Raytheon Corp., which acquired the fe
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Hamre foresees joint task force for info ops at DOD
The Pentagon has plans under way to set up a joint task force to handle strategic and tactical information operations, both offensive and defensive, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre.
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Bad software represents "self-inflicted information warfare"
The Defense Department needs to bring new order and discipline to software acquisition, development and maintenance or face serious consequences in future wars, according to D. Patricia Sanders, DOD's director of test, systems engineering and evaluation.
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DOD Software Technology Conference kicks off with network-centric program
The tenth annual Defense Department Software Technology Conference (STC) opens here today for a fourday run at the Salt Palace Convention Center, with 3,300 attendees already preregistered and roughly 240 information technology vendors scheduled to exhibit.
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Education's Web site sets teachers FREE
Searching for information on the World Wide Web is similar to visiting a flea market: It is mildly interesting at first, but then it becomes frustrating as piles of useless junk overwhelm any desire to continue searching for anything of real value.
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DOD cautions services to wait on ATM buys
Concerned about incompatible equipment, the Defense Department this month asked the armed services and DOD agencies temporarily to stop buying a highspeed network technology critical to future warfighting strategy pending release of departmentwide standards. This action could slow work on $5 billi
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* Defense duo does the valley. My remote unit reported that John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense, and Art Money, the designee for the assistant secretary of Defense Info Ops job, spent last week having highlevel powwows in Silicon Valley, including visits to executives at HP and a session with
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Navy christens new Network Operations Center
The Navy stands a good chance of obtaining the budget it needs to complete an enormous shiptoshore automation project about five years ahead of schedule.
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Navy's IT-21 project could get accelerated funding
The Navy stands a good chance of obtaining the budget it needs to complete an enormous shiptoshore automation project about five years ahead of schedule.
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Funding and spectrum conflicts threaten GPS civilian expansion
The departments of Defense and Transportation need to quickly resolve complex funding and spectrum issues to provide the Global Positioning System's second and third civilian signals, which Vice President Al Gore announced late last month, according to top Pentagon and DOT officials. Developed by D
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Rogue transmitter knocks out GPS signals
An errant Air Force transmitter in upstate New York jammed Global Positioning System satellite navigation signals for two weeks earlier this year, with at least one Continental Airlines flight reporting a total loss of GPS signals and a dozen other GPSequipped aircraft filing interference reports,
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DOD considers extending life of aging Autodin
The Defense Department has begun to develop contingency plans to keep portions of the Autodin messaging system operational past its scheduled shutoff date at the end of 1999. Although its planned replacement, the halfbilliondollar Defense Message System program, was originally intended to take o
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* DMRD The Pentagon ran a pricey, displaytype classified ad in the Wall Street Journal April 8 for what it called an 'executive opportunity'' for a job as director, Defense Reform Initiative, 'who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense...and functions as the principal adviser for all matter
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