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* C3I pinchhitter. Jacques Gansler the new deputy secretary of Defense has tapped former ASD/C3I Duane Andrews now laboring in the rarefied heights of SAIC to help him come up with a new game plan for the office Andrews once headed. No hard intell on what Andrews will suggest but my Tysons Corner
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Reforms help field C2 system faster
SAN DIEGO Acquisition streamlining combined with the cost benefits of substituting commercial PCs for highend Unix workstations will allow the Navy to field its major command and control system four years earlier than anticipated. Capt. Roger Hull program manager for Navy command and control sys
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Watery wonders await on NOAA's Web site
Wellcrafted 'kids' sites'' on the World Wide Web showcase the medium at its best. While TV with the exception of the Public Broadcasting Service rarely uses its power to inform enlighten and educate numerous Web sites have heartily embraced this mission. Tune into the National Oceanic and Atmosphe
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MCI presents Navy with high-bandwidth option
SAN DIEGO MCI Government Markets believes it has developed a turnkey commercial solution that exceeds the Navy's requirements for sending highbandwidth voice video and data to ships at sea. The requirements are part of the Navy's highprofile Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) p
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Acquisition brings together Ashtec, Magellan
Orbital Sciences Corp. strengthened its position in the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver industry through an agreement to acquire and merge Ashtec Inc. with Orbital's Magellan Corp. subsidiary creating a $125 million satellite receiver company. Magellan which introduced the first handheld G
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Navy stays with PCs, Microsoft standards
HONOLULU The Navy plans to stay with the interim commercial standards issued in March for its massive project to link ship and shore computer systems despite heavy industry pressure for changes. The Navy still plans to build its Information Technology for the 21st Century project around Intel Cor
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Protests plague DISA telecom procurements
The Defense Information Systems Agency's decision to modify existing contracts for key telecommunications programs has led to a series of vendor protests in the past month. In particular three procurements are at issue. DISA recently modified AT&T's domestic DISA Transmission Services Contract (DTS
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DOD unveils flexible messaging architecture
The Pentagon has adopted a new "flexible" architecture for its Defense Message System that strongly embraces commercial software offers users simplicity of use and promises to save millions of dollars on the halfbilliondollar project. The original DMS design and requirements which included a ma
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DOD awards high-speed broadcast service pact
HONOLULU U.S. forces operating in the Pacific will have the first opportunity to tap into a military version of the DirecTV satellite service, and top commanders here have ambitious plans for the system, including everything from sending digital maps to troops in the field to beaming military ins
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Spawar ahoy. My Crystal City Va. antenna site has picked up solid signals that Rear Adm. John Gauss will depart the N6 shop in March to replace Rear Adm. George Wagner as commander of Spawar the key Navy command charged with the nutsandbolts work on IT21. This job sounds as exciting as serving a
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Agreement targets IT-21 buy-in
HONOLULU Top Navy officials have agreed to focus funding from disparate information technology programs as well as research and development dollars on the Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) project, one of the key management tasks necessary for the Navy to accomplish the ambitiou
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Cohen plan splits C3 & intelligence
Six months after a major review of Defense Department operations Secretary of Defense William Cohen last week announced a sweeping reform of DOD that will dramatically alter how the department manages information technology as well as bolster major Defense IT initiatives. While the Quadrennial Defe
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* No Betamax. That's the analogy that Pete Paulson DISA's DISN operation chief uses to describe the agency's cautious approach to the insertion of ATM technology into DOD's backbone network. Concerned about the lack of standards in the networkgizmo industry Paulson said DISA does not want to acqui
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Navy submariner-turned-tech-guru steers course of IT-21
SAN DIEGO Capt. Mark Lenci who manages the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) project here at the headquarters of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (Spawar) confesses that he had never even sent an email until two years ago. In 1995 Adm. Archie Clemins the comm
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Pacific Fleet makes the Web a family affair
The Pacific Fleet's operations span more than half the globe stretching from the coasts of the Americas to those in Asia and on to Africa. Thanks to a crash effort started a year ago the majority of the Navy and Marine Corps units in the Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) are just a mouse click over the horizo
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MONTEREY Calif. * Do it now. That's the bottom line of the message that CINCPACFLT Adm. Archie Clemins delivered at the end of his speech to Milcom '97 here. Observing that 'all the technologies to do [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Vision 2010 are here today " Clemins asked 'Why are we going to wait 12 y
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DOD slows high-speed telecom development
MONTEREY Calif. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced last week that it has adopted a slower approach to its development of advanced highspeed switching technology on communication networks that will serve all Defense Department users. DISA director Lt. Gen. David Kelley speaking here
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NSA cancels telecom award to Cisco Systems
The National Security Agency has canceled the award of a controversial contract to buy thousands of highspeed network switches from Cisco Systems Inc. The agency which rarely comments on any topic publicly did not announce the cancellation of the socalled Light Core contract designed to supply NS
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Navy develops fast-track blueprint for IT-21 rollout
MONTEREY Calif. The Navy has adopted a fastpaced plan to turn its ambitious Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT21) vision into reality with rapid insertion of an advanced network architecture into both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets according to Adm. Archie Clemins commander in chi
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