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Vanessa Jo Grimm

Digital Government

From Interstate 675 to the I-way

The Aeronautical Systems Center's Major Shared Resource Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force base, Ohio, last month installed three new supercomputers that will support a scientific research network of users throughout the Defense Department. The Cray C90, Cray J90 and the IBM SP will boost computer power of the center, one of four MSRCs being overhauled to handle the bulk of DOD's future supercomputing needs. Nichols Research Corp. of Huntsville, Ala., won the contract this spring

  • By Vanessa Jo Grimm, GCN
Digital Government

DOD Briefing Book

Despite official announcements this summer that Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski will succeed Vice Adm. Walter Davis as the Navy's director of space and electronic warfare, Davis is expected to stay in his current post until mid-December. The extension will give Davis, holder of the prestigious Grey Eagle trophy, the opportunity to transfer the trophy to Rear Adm. Andrew Granuzzo in a ceremony aboard the USS Constellation off San Diego on Dec. 11. The trophy is

  • By Vanessa Jo Grimm, GCN
Digital Government

A single DMS mail network is still 10 years off

Don't look for all Defense Department and CIA users to use the Defense Message System on a single network until around 2007. Although DOD managers once expected an integrated DMS to be fully operational by 2000, they now say security concerns will force them to operate three message networks for at least the next five years and probably longer.

  • By Vanessa Jo Grimm, GCN
Digital Government

First Stetson Awards honor six of the Trail Bosses who rode herd on a wild bunch ofIRM acquisitions

"No news is good news" is a saying clearly understood by the winners of the first Trail Boss Stetson Awards. The six federal information technology procurement managers honored this month know that when things go right, they won't be in the public eye. With systems buys, "the success measure comes far, far after the program award," said speaker George Coulbourn, vice president of Boeing Information Services.

  • By Vanessa Jo Grimm, GCN