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To: jeffbas who wrote (3822)	5/22/1998 9:25:00 AM
From: robert a belfer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21143

Off topic. 2 excerts form May 25 edition of Navy Times. BY LISA BURGESS "When a U.S. AV-8B Harrier jump jet takes off on a test run"......."It will also test the practicality of the military's move tward buying comercial information technology for its weapon systems."......"The Open Systems Core Avionics Requirments computer was developed entirely around commercial microprocessors, software languages and development tools and standards, accourding to Don Winter, manager of mission systems software at Boeing Co's Phantom Works in St. Louis." BY DAVID MULHOLLAND "the U.S. military's supercompuing centers want to triple the power of the compuiters used to design, test and simulate future weapons systems".........."Each of the four centers has an eight-year budget of between $200 million and $250 million"...... "altoough managers at the centers would not disclose how much would be spent on new systems, they said roughly a third of the acquision budget remains."