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MCI wins DISN bandwidth manager
After years of fighting for a place in the federal telecommunications market MCI last week won the Defense Department's continental United States switch and network management contract ending AT&T's decadesold hegemony over military longhaul services. One industry analyst called the MCI win "an
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FIRST INITIAL * Sayonara WWMCCS. Look for DISA to finally turn off the World Wide Military Command and Control System within the next week with the Global Command and Control System taking over from the aging mainframebased command and control system said DISA director Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds speaking
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Exhibition showcases warfighter IT links
FORT BRAGG N.C. Three weeks ago Capt. Ronald Lewis a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division Aviation Brigade temporarily traded in the cyclic controller of his Kiowa Warrior helicopter for a mouse hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc. workstation. Since then he has tested the ability of
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Webmasters advocate an open environment
Netscape Communications Corp. and Microsoft Corp. aim to compete for market share in World Wide Web browsers by emphasizing unique features of their particular products but that will not gain them any new federal fans. Government Webmasters see their job as making sure that the largest possible num
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JWID Web sites serve up hot tech for warfighters
Gadgets and gizmos galore that's what's promised at the annual Joint Warfare Interoperability Demonstration (JWID). If you can't make it this week to one of the JWID '96 sites then you can tap into JWID on the World Wide Web on a home page hosted by the Army at www.army.mil/jwid96.htm. Once on th
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Soldier faces court-martial in espionage case
FORT BRAGG N.C. The Army has charged Pfc. Eric Jenott assigned to the 35th Signal Brigade 18th Airborne Corps with espionage theft of computer passwords and computer crimes involving classified military networks that include unauthorized hacking of supposedly secure systems. The Army provided onl
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FIRST INITIAL * Nipping at NIPRNET. MCI seems less than pleased with the Fedsim/Pulsar/Sprint trifecta that will result in DISA moving NIPRNET traffic off the AT&T DCTN net and onto a highspeed nonFTS 2000 Sprint network that could eventually sport ATM under the hood. I am picking up signals that
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PLGR explosion injures one, prompts safety measures
An Army Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver manufactured by the Collins division of Rockwell International Corp. exploded during an exercise at Fort Irwin Calif. last month injuring one soldier who required hospitalization. The blast caused the triservice GPS Joint Program Office (JPO) to rec
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Doing the DSSG. Signals from my East St. Louis antenna site correlated with intell picked up by my Courthouse Road stealth unit indicate Government Systems Inc. has quietly dropped its protest and suit against the $3 billion DISN support pact awarded to Boeing by DISA. This clears the way for B
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Democrats in Chi'town
The Democrats still have the party that likes to party based upon a glance at the World Wide Web site (www.democrats.org/) the Democratic National Committee (DNC) set up for the party convention starting Aug. 26 in Chicago. While the Republican National Convention Web site strived to keep "cyberd
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Netscape still dominates in federal marketplace
Although the federal version of the battle to dominate the World Wide Web is just heating up Netscape Communications Corp. remains the browser of choice for federal users even though Microsoft Corp. is throwing enormous resources into its push to emerge from a distant second place. Microsoft last w
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Micron aims to prime on federal contracts
Micron Electronics Inc. thinks its PCs can make the big time in the federal market and has ambitious plans that include bidding PC deals as a prime contractor. Though a newcomer to the federal arena the Nampa Idahobased company already has vaulted into the ranks of top 10 PC vendors on the General
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White House to unveil Web policy
The White House has drafted privacy and security guidelines for agencies maintaining World Wide Web sites that the Office of Management and Budget plans to circulate this fall.At that time OMB will also release guidelines detailing how the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and the Information Technolog
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Politics, pigeons and pygmy mammoths in San Diego
Ahhh technology. Thanks to the Internet and the World Wide Web political conventions now have moved from smokefilled rooms to cyberspace. When the Republican National Convention (RNC) starts today in San Diego Internet users around the world can tap into a sophisticated Web site that for starters
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DTV upgrades. Look for Hughes Data Systems to upgrade its DT V offerings a Pentium 166 at "a good price point." That's the word from Felice Liston director of government sales at Micron Electronics the Hughes DT V PC supplier. Liston expects the change to occur before the end of the fiscal 1996 b
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Three win JITC contract for engineering, support
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week tapped three vendors to provide an array of engineering and support services for the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) at Fort Huachuca Ariz. Competing over the fiveyear life of the $420 million taskorder contract will be BDM Engineering S
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GCCS misses July deadline
The Defense Information Systems Agency missed its endofJuly deadline for replacing the antiquated World Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) with the Global Command and Control System (GCCS), but a top agency official expects to have the program back on track by the end of August. Re
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Rapid Battlefield Visualization tops list of ACTD projects
The Pentagon unveiled its Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) candidates for fiscal 1997, with information technologies for the battlefield leading the list of programs that could make it from development to the field in the near future. Many of these initiatives are part of an overall
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MCI wins $8M Army satcom pact for Kuwait
MCI Government Markets won an $8 million contract to provide advanced satellite communications services to the Army Central Command (ARCENT)Kuwait. The system will provide ARCENT with secure voice, data, videoconferencing and facsimile services through highspeed satellite links. MCI has installed
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