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U.S. mandate: `move info, not people
TUZLA, Bosnia Soldiers from the 22nd Signal Command rush around the headquarters of U.S. ground forces to load a convoy of four heavily armed Humvees with one of the key elements of Operation Joint Endeavor: a package of preconfigured routers and communications servers for installation at one of
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Exit Paige. Emmett Paige Jr., the ASD/C3I, has no plans on reupping for a second four years if Clinton wins the election in November. Paige, who spent most of his federal career wearing Army green, said, "I had more influence as general than as ASD/C3I.... I also had more fun as a general." Serg
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DISA fires back at AT&T
In a sharply worded response to AT&T's protest of the multibilliondollar Defense Information Systems Network procurement, the Defense Department struck back, airing myriad complaints about the longhaul AT&T Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network (DCTN) contract, first awarded to that compa
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Troops dial up stateside data
ZAGREB, Croatia The Army has extended powerful telecommunications networks so deep into Bosnia that infantry company clerks can use their PCs to easily tap into databases in the United States, according to topranking communications and computer experts in the Army 5th Signal Command, Defense In
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WORMS, Germany Live from 5th Sig. The Interceptor has moved his flyaway rig here, to the HQ of the Army 5th Signal Command, to get the kind of information on Operation Joint Endeavor he'd never find prowling the Ering. This week he will deploy a special ruggedized Interceptor unit to Bosnia, C
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Deca hands $200M modernization pact to AT&T NCR
The AT&T NCR Division has won the Defense Commissary Agency's (Deca) fouryear pointofsale modernization contract valued at up to $200 million, a win that reflects the company's more historic product lines. NCR, known for its stronghold on the commercial pointofsale market, was named AT&T Globa
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Infosec pact wilts; agencies lack funds
The Defense Department's premier information security contract, valued at almost $2 billion when awarded last July, has fizzled out after hitting its minimum guarantee of just $6 million, knowledgeable industry and former DOD sources said. The state of the contract worries security experts concerne
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Air Force vs. ASD/C3I? I have been picking up strong signals that there is fallout from a newly released Air Force study, "New World Vistas," which lays out the technologies the service believes it needs and does not need over the next 25 years. The study puts some pet projects of ASD/C3I Emmett
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Air Force's upgrade decision could resonate industrywide
The Air Force's threat to hold Desktop IV contractors in default if they do not supply Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 operating system and Office 95 free to users could have broad ramifications for buyers and sellers of federal information technology. Prime contractors Government Technology Services
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Staying The Disn Course. Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds Does Not Buy The Central Argument Of At&T's Disn Protest That It Be Allowed To Submit An Integrated Bid For One Simple Reason: He Never Again Wants To Face The Possibility Of "Turning Dod Upside Down" When Faced With The Expiration Of A Single MegaCon
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Bosnia support nets to get upgrade
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to upgrade by spring the communications networks that now support U.S. and multinational forces of Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia with advanced bandwidth on demand and Global Broadcast Services. According to DISA director Lt. Gen. Al Edmonds, in the
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DGPS sets new course in navigation
The Coast Guard turned on its nationwide Differential Global Positioning System network last week, launching what Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena called a "new era in navigation." The 47 sites in the Coast Guard DGPS network provide complete coverage of all U.S. coastal waters, includin
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U.S. know-how brings telecom to peacekeeping in Bosnia
U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia have constructed one of the most extensive and complex field communications networks ever put together by the military, a voice/video/data infrastructure that stretches all the way from Bosnia to the Pentagon. Some 600plus soldiers of the U.S. Army 5th Signal Command
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Desktop V delayed
The Air Force postponed the award of its $1 billionplus Desktop V PC contract until April, after winnowing down the list of bidders to offerors who made the "competitive range" cut. Despite the delay, the Air Force Standard Systems Center (SSC) wants to keep the program on a fast track, telling
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Internet brownouts. The explosive growth of the World Wide Web and all those cutsie graphics has already started to choke the Internet, according to Mark Kosters at Network Solutions Inc., which runs the InterNic. Kosters, quoted in a startling story on the MEME list, said the combination of wideb
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DTIC chief heads DOD Web effort
Last month when officials in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (OSDPA) wanted to set up a World Wide Web site containing information about Bosnia, they turned to the Defense Technical Information Center for help. Kurt Molholm, DTIC's administrator, said it took the
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Buy a lot of gangplanks. President Clinton did the DOD acquisition work force a big favor by vetoing the Defense authorization bill. A provision buried in the boilerplate (Sec. 906) calls for reducing the acquisition work force by 15,000 people by Oct. 1. Think of the savings if the same language o
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DOD set to award $2B in PC, workstation deals
The Air Force and the Navy plan to award personal computer and workstation contracts over the next three months with a combined value of $2 billion, continuing a technologyrefreshment cycle that comes close to mirroring the commercial marketplace. The Air Force Standard Systems Center, Gunter Anne
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AT&T fires off protest against DISN
On the last day before bids were due on the multibilliondollar Defense Information Systems Network contract AT&T filed a protest against the procurement with the General Accounting Office. Reaction from DOD was sharp. Emmett Paige Jr. assistant secretary of Defense for command control communicatio
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