Friday | 9 January, 2009

Stories by: Daniel Verton

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    Report illuminates NATO's hi-tech problems 10/02/2000 12:01:01

    Although NATO nations contributed significantly to the success of the 78-day air war in Kosovo, the significant high-tech "imbalance" between US forces and its NATO allies could have long-term implications for the effectiveness of the alliance, a Pentagon report concluded.
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    Linux Takes NOAA by Storm 11/10/1999 12:01:01

    In what may be the first competitive government contract involving the Linux operating system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last month tagged a Reston, Virginia-based company to provide a Linux-based supercomputer that promises drastic improvements in the ability to forecast dangerous weather patterns.
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    Russians agree to Y2K warning centre 15/09/1999 12:01:01

    More than six months after negotiations began, US and Russian Federation officials have signed a statement supporting the creation of a joint warning centre that would help avoid an accidental launch of nuclear weapons that could result from system malfunctions caused by Year 2000-related computer problems.
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    US Defense prioritises Y2K poblems 28/07/1999 12:01:01

    The US Defense Department has instructed all military commanders to maintain their units' ability to go to war in the event of widespread year 2000-related critical infrastructure failures, relegating local community assistance to the bottom of the department's priority list.
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    DOD expands Net for ground forces 27/05/1999 12:01:01

    In anticipation of using ground forces as either peacekeepers or in a tactical offensive against Serb forces, the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has started a massive program to expand communications services throughout the European theatre.
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    IBM Upgrades SP Server 10/02/1999 12:01:01

    IBM Corp. last week unleashed a more powerful version of its RS/6000 SP server system, which brings supercomputer power to bear on data mining, scientific modeling and simulation, and online transaction processing.
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    HP beefs up high-end Unix server line 23/12/1998 12:01:01

    Hewlett-Packard this month announced its latest high-end, Unix-based server, reaffirming the company's commitment to the Unix operating system and its own reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) processor architecture.
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    EU may investigate US global spy network 10/11/1998 12:01:01

    The European Union is considering launching a full-scale investigation into whether the US National Security Agency (NSA) is abusing its massive and highly advanced surveillance network to spy on government and private groups around the world.
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