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DOD readies contingency plan for aging Autodin
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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U.S. gears up for defense of GPS spectrum
Key federal spectrum officials voiced concern today that the United States might not gain the protection it needs for Global Positioning System satellite signals when an international meeting of radio spectrum users convenes in 1999.
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New GPS civilian signals to cost as much as $700 million
A White House announcement last week to improve the accuracy and reliability of the Global Positioning System by adding two new civilian signals could end up costing as much as $700 million a bill that civilian agencies will have to pay, according to a source familiar with the proposed systems architectures.
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Finding frequencies for new GPS signals proves difficult
The departments of Defense and Transportation need to resolve a number of key issues before the two agencies can go ahead with a plan announced last week to add two new civilian frequencies to the Global Positioning System, according to DOT.
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Russians selling navigational jamming device
The Senate late last week established a special committee to address the Year 2000 problem.
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Gauss lays out IT plans for Spawar
Rear Adm. John Gauss, who last month took over as commander of the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Command (Spawar), said he wants to deliver information to users as just another utility such as power and phone connections. The programs and projects Gauss plans in the near term will allow Navy user
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Intercepts
* The Great CIO Saga (continued). The campaign for the key deputy CIO slot at DOD continues unabated, with the fervor usually found in a smalltown election but then, the Pentagon does resemble a small town, albeit with a disproportionate number of supercharged egos. As Intercepts fans remember,
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New satellite signals improve civilian use
The addition of two new civilian signals to navigation satellites widely used by federal agencies ranging from the Forest Service to the Census Bureau will provide greater accuracy and reliability with little or no increase in the cost of the receivers, according to top managers in the Global Posit
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Army awards three BPAs for PC wares
The Army last week awarded blanket purchase agreements potentially worth a total of $300 million to three resellers to provide peripherals, accessories and software for its installed base of desktop and laptop computers. Comark Federal Systems, Government Technology Services Inc. and Vanstar Govern
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Hill proposes $200M more for Year 2000 fix
Congress, faced with the ticking of the Year 2000 clock, used the 1998 supplemental appropriations bill to add more than $200 million in funding to help the Federal Aviation Administration and the Treasury Department rectify computer date problems in key systems before the turn of the century. The
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Locate GPS info on Coast Guard site
Last month the Pentagon and the Transportation Department agreed to add two civilian frequencies to the Global Positioning System, giving added importance to an upcoming Coast Guard meeting on civilian GPS. The Pentagon/DOT agreement, according to Vice President Al Gore, will improve numerous comme
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Army picks three vendors to provide peripherals, software products
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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GPS system to gain two signals in 2005
Vice President Al Gore said a joint military/civilian board agreed to add two additional signals for civil users to Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites slated to go into service in 2005.
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Remote Rx
Even if doctors still made house calls, they probably couldn't help the 30 troops who man a remote U.S. Army communications outpost on Hill 1326 in Bosnia. In good weather, the hill is a two to threehour Humvee drive from the nearest paved road. It takes even longer in the winter, when the troops
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DOD's Valletta joins SRA
Anthony Valletta, acting assistant secretary of Defense for command, control communications and intelligence (ASD/C3I), plans to join SRA International Inc. as a vice president in federal systems after he retires this week, Federal Computer Week has learned.
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Army views space as ultimate 'high ground'
Looking almost three decades into the future, the Army has started planning the technology that will drive its forces in 2025, or what it calls the Army After Next (AAN).
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Intercepts
* DISA/GSA lovein? Look for a new spirit of cooperation between the Defense Information Systems Agency and the General Services Administration on joint network development. DISA's director, Lt. Gen. David Kelley, and Federal Technology Service Commissioner Dennis Fischer pledged to harmonize effor
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Agencies start to wield past-performance club
Federal agencies have started to wield the pastperformance stick that Congress gave them in information technology reform legislation by using vendors' success rates on previous IT contracts to evaluate bids on pending pacts. One of the more strict pastperformance evaluations in government is the
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DOD draft shifts ASD/C3I focus/mission
The draft blueprint for the Pentagon's key command and control office calls for a laserlike focus on information superiority and recommends that the Defense Department establish a new assistant secretary of Defense for information superiority to replace the current assistant secretary of Defense f
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