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From: gerber@sirius.astro.uiuc.edu (Richard Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: FYI: Mac government contract
Summary: Fed. gov. says Mac UN*X ok for Air Force
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.161306.29573@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 16:13:06 GMT
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I recall there being some discussion of this a few months back,
so, stolen from the news wire:

Apple Closer to Gaining Big Federal Contract 03/15/91

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1991 MAR 15  -- The U.S. General
Accounting Office has ruled that Apple Macintosh IIcx computers
running under the A/UX version of Unix do meet the requirements
of the HFSI (Honeywell Federal Systems Inc.) contract to supply
the Air Force's World Wide Military Command and Control System
Information System.

The ruling on the $600 million contract denied the protest of
Herndon, Virginia-based C3 Corporation, which was only the latest
challenge to the contract.

After earlier protests had resulted in a reopening of bidding, C3
had bid about $20 million less ...
The Air Force tests
described the Macintosh systems as technically superior.

The C3 protest contended that, when the Air Force again selected
the Macintosh systems last summer (1990), the military had
ignored the questions of multitasking, system connectivity, and
security.

Nearly a year ago, in response to an earlier August 1989 protest
by Martin Marietta, the GAO had recommended that bidding be
reopened on the contract because of challenges to the question of
whether the Macintosh could meet multitasking requirements.

The contract, which originally called for a minimum of 10,000
Apple Macintosh computers, related software, and support, was
awarded by The Electronic Systems Division at Hanscom Air Force
Base, Massachusetts.