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                Date: 1998-08-24
                 
                 
                Dual Use: Pentagon semi/privat verkabelt
                
                 
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      Das schlimme Prefix "semi" heisst schon längst "dual use". 
Was mehr als nur semi/militärisch war, wird 
halb/zivilisiert. Ausdrücklich zur Lektüre empfohlen wird 
die Kundenliste des Contract Winners GTE (c below) 
 
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August 21, 1998 10:00 AM PDT GTE has been selected to 
renovate the information technology and telecommunications 
infrastructure at the Pentagon, one of the world's largest 
office buildings. The renovation contract, officially known 
as the Above-Ground Telecommunications Backbone (ATB) 
program, was awarded by the Defense Supply Service 
Washington on behalf of the Dept. of the Army's Information 
Management and Telecommunications (IM&T) project management 
office. The contract is valued at approximately $110 million 
over 10 years. 
 
Through this program, GTE and its team of subcontractors 
will design, engineer, test, install, document and 
continuously refresh a totally integrated 
information-management and telecommunications backbone 
system and infrastructure in the Pentagon. The ATB will 
satisfy the Pentagon's voice, video and data communications 
requirements, both unclassified and classified, into the 
21st century.  
When completed, the ATB will support the telephone, 
computer, fax, video and data communications needs of 
approximately 24,000 users in the Pentagon. Comprising 
nearly 135,000 individual service 'drops' (e.g., jacks in 
the walls to which computers, phones and other electronic 
instruments will be connected) throughout the five 
above-ground floors of the Pentagon building, the new 
backbone will replace more than 100,000 miles of cabling 
installed in the building since 1943. The ATB will be 
installed in five, two-year phases as sections of the 
Pentagon called 'wedges' are demolished and reconstructed 
from the inside out. 
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<editors note: militaria> 
In addition to the Pentagon ATB program, GTE is an 
information technology/ telecommunications infrastructure 
contractor with several of the individual services within 
the Defense Department, and the General Services 
Administration. Other GTE infrastructure programs include 
the U.S. Army's Outside Cable Rehabilitation (OSCAR II), 
Major Command Telecommunications Modernization (MTMP) and 
Long-Term Life Cycle Support (LTLCS) programs; the U.S. Air 
Force's Worldwide Integrated Digital Telecommunications 
Systems (WIDTS) and Regional Distribution System (RDS) 
programs; the U.S. Navy's Voice, Video and Data (ViViD) 
contract for upgrading the telecommunications infrastructure 
at Navy bases around the world; and the General Services 
Administration's Wire and Cable Systems (GSA WACS) program. 
 
 
<editors note: civilia> 
GTE's team on the project comprises 11 other companies, 
including Advanced Systems Development, Inc., Arlington, 
Va.; Artel, Inc., Reston, Va.; Global Management Systems, 
Inc., Bethesda, Md.; Henkels & McCoy, Inc., Lorton, Va.; 
ITEQ, Silver Spring, Md.; J.G. Van Dyke & Associates, 
Bethesda, Md.; Lightwave Spectrum, Inc., Chantilly, Va.; NCI 
Information Systems, McLean, Va.; SIGCOM, Greensboro, N.C.; 
SRA International, Inc., Fairfax, Va.; and Sytel, Inc., 
Bethesda, Md. The two major electronic equipment suppliers 
on the contract are Fore Systems, Inc., of Warrendale, Pa., 
and Cabletron Systems, of Rochester, 
 
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source: Pointcast 
relayee:  par m.vesely@office.magnet.at 
 
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published on: 1998-08-24 
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