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California dreamin'.
My Orange County antenna site has picked up mediumstrength signals that Deborah Castleman would like to replace Emmett Paige Jr. as ASD/C3I. Castleman served as a DASD/C3I to Paige before resigning to help design and develop an electric car. Now I hear she's charged up by the results of the last e
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USS Belleau Wood assaults DOD Web site boilerplate
Charts graphs ponderous policy documents and photos of gear predominate on many a federal World Wide Web site especially in the Defense Department. Rarely does one find carefully crafted prose. But check out the home page of the USS Belleau Wood (www.c7f.yokipc.navy.mil/bwood.html) which offers up
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It's official: GTE wins wireless pact
Capping off a 27month effort the General Services Administration this month awarded a $300 million nationwide contract for cellular telecommunications services a move designed to cut most federal users' cellular bills by up to 60 percent. The award is the first in a series of PostFTS 2000 contrac
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Navy launches RFI for HYDRA follow-on
'The Navy has issued a request for information for an onboard commercial wireless communications system that industry values between $20 million and $100 million. The Navy's Integrated Wirefree Communications System procurement is a followon to a smaller program the Hierarchical Yet Dynamically R
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Intercepts
* Basic enjoyment. Emmett Paige Jr. the ASD/C3I finally made his departure official in a talk he gave here at the annual AFCEA AsiaPacific Conference saying he planned to formally submit his resignation by Nov. 15. Paige who will continue to serve as long as necessary said he did not 'enjoy the jo
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Navy favors outsourcing IT smorgasbord
The Navy plans to conduct a pilot information technology outsourcing program in the Pacific Fleet that could lead to a whole new way the service acquires computer and communications products and services used on shore and at sea.
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DT V 8(a) protested; ZDS clears up backlog
The Air Force's recent selection of International Data Products Corp. as the apparent winner of the Desktop V smallbusiness contract has been met with a protest from Dynamic Decisions Inc. Rosslyn Va. Bob Hesser director of federal sales at DDI declined to provide any details of his company's prot
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BC2S gets ATM technology boost
To cover the Defense Department's ongoing withdrawal of U.S. forces from Bosnia to Germany Pentagon communicators have upgraded the Bosnian Command and Control System (BC2S) to handle huge multigigabyte data files from platforms such as spy satellites and Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Air Forc
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MCI, DOD explore security issues in upcoming BT buy
In anticipation of its announced purchase by British Telecommunications PLC MCI's Government Markets division has been working with the Defense Investigative Service to ensure that the company's guidelines for protecting federal classified communications meet the standards established by the Defens
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Intercepts
New info war ops center. DISA has created a Global Operations and Security Center to provide centralized management for all IWD (information warfaredefend) operations for DOD. Air Force Col. James Sweeder who previously headed NSA's Customer Engineering Support Division will run the new center. S
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U.S. sitting duck, DOD panel predicts
The dependence of the United States on computers and communications systems to run its critical power finance and transportation systems places the country at risk in the event of an information warfare (IW) attack according to a report prepared by a toplevel Defense Department advisory panel. Thi
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Army outfit keeps water data flowing
While you might not need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows a hydrologist comes in mighty handy when an entire armored division is planning to cross a river using nothing but pontoon bridges. That's what the 1st Armored Division commanders in Bosnia now have access to thanks to a World W
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Motorola takes Air Force contract worth $263.7M
Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group won the $263.7 million Air Force Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) Integrated Communications Access Packages Program contract late last month. Motorola bested both GTE Corp. and Harris Corp. for the key program which is designed to upgrade communica
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Intercepts
* Paige to stay? Despite an announcement earlier this year that he planned to pull the pin after the election ASD/C3I Emmett Paige Jr. appears to have no immediate plans to hit the road. In a recent allcaps email (fondly referred to around here as Emmettgrams) Paige wrote 'I HAVE NO SET SCHEDULE
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Report backs joint personnel system
The Defense Science Board has strongly recommended development of a joint commercially based personnel and pay system for the Defense Department rather than the Navy system ardently backed for the past two years by Rep. Bob Livingston (DLa.) the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Commit
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Sysorex, BTG land PC-2 pacts
BTG Inc. and Sysorex Information Systems Inc. captured the Army's PC2 procurement for 133 000 highpowered Pentium PCs with what one industry source described as "astonishingly low prices for very advanced computers." Sysorex according to industry sources won with a bid of $217 million while BTG
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Digitized force may be held back from training until ready
Army Chief of Staff Dennis Reimer indicated last week that the Army may consider delaying training exercises for its brigadelevel digitized force that currently are slated for March and April 1997. Reimer speaking at a press conference at the start of last week's annual meeting of the Association
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Navy awards BPAs worth $90 million
The Naval Information Systems Management Center has awarded four broad purchase agreements worth a total of $90 million for up to 23 500 desktop PCs and servers. NISMC tapped AmeriData Federal Systems Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. Government Technology Services Inc. and McBride & Associates for the
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Paige prods Lockheed Martin to integrate key C3I systems
When executives of Lockheed Corp. and MartinMarietta Corp. proposed a merger they touted the ability of the combined company to deliver economies of scale as well as systems synergy to the Defense Department. Now top Pentagon command and control officials have told the combined Lockheed Martin Cor
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