What Happened at Association For Electronic Business (AFEB)

This page gives a record of what happened in the AFEB

By Month

Presentations

The following are months that contain AFEB meetings. Please select the Month you wish to view.

October 95, 1995

October 17

Integrated Data Exchange was the topic of a joint meeting with SOLE Oct at the Holiday Inn Madison Square Mall, Huntsville, AL. Mr. Mike Ivey, was the speaker for this luncheon. To view MR. Ivey's presentation

October 23-26, 1995

CALS Expo 95 was held in Long Beach, CA October 23-26.

The theme this year, "Changing the Future" showcased integrated solutions to assist industries and government become more agile and responsive to the dynamic Global Market Place.

Tutorials included this year were: CALS 101and 102, Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange, SGML, STEP, Standards for CALS, Enterprise Integration, Concurrent Engineering (intro and advanced), Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Internet 101, CALS Security.

November 95, 1995

November 16

An "After CALS EXPO" lunch was held at Morrisons Cafeteria 1130-1245.

Speakers included:

Cynthia Hauer, MEVATEC

Cynthia shared what new concepts she found in Configuration Management.

Dona Mason, Uwohali, Systems Analyst.

Dona, involved in the International portion of the MLRS Automation Initiative, shared what new concepts she found in Security. presentation

Mickey Hunter, Uwohali. Mickey, integrator at the NASA Repository Automated Optical Imaging System (RAOIS) in which MSFC engineering documentation is stored, shared what he found helpful in the areas of document imaging.

Handouts Included:

• The DoD Master Plan
• The new Commercial Contractors Integrated Technical Information System (CITIS) Standard
• The Army CALS Implementation Plan (ACIP)

There was a brief meeting of the AFEB IC96 Conference Planning Committee immediately following the November meeting.

March 1996

8 March AFEB Workshop

TOPIC: Configuration Management/Integrated Product Development

Cynthia Hauer, MEVATEC, Workshop Chair

8:00 am --5:00 PM

Sparkman Center Auditorium

Bldg. 5304 (Sparkman Center Auditorium) Redstone Arsenal

Huntsville, Alabama

The meeting on March 8th was a great success. Speakers and Presentation Topics were:

Click on presenter name for biographies

"What direction is the DoD going and what steps are we taking to get there?"

Linda Burgher,

Office of the Undersecretary of Defense CALS and EDI.

"CALS in a GLOBAL ECONOMY"

"DoD Configuration Management and Data Management direction and goals"

Phil Farrington,

UAH, head of MICOM Integrated Product Team Training presenting

"Integrated Product Development (IPD) Overview" and " IPD from the Contractor View "

Colonel Roy D. Millar,

NLOS E-FOG Program Manager

"IPD from the Government View"

Alan Lager,

Vice-Chair of the CALS/IPT CDM Task Group; Member of the DoD's CM Advisory Group; Vice-Chair of the Electronic Industries Association Panel on Configuration and Data Management; Task leader for the new Industry CM Standard, IS-649

AFEB Business:

• Presentation of AFEB Awards
• AFEB Elections

Handouts were:

• Door Prizes: 2 CD's of "1994 CALS EXPO Proceedings" Abstracts of Presentations at the EXPO
• New EDI Requirements to AR 380-19 (Internet Security)
• The New Commercial CITIS Standard

2 May 96

TOPIC: LEGACY DATA MANAGEMENT

Ron Harlow, Intergraph, Course Chair

8:00 - 10:00 AM

BDM International Inc.

950 Exployer Blvd.

Huntsville, Alabama

The Legacy Data Management course turned into an intriguing round table of ideas on legacy data as well as what is being done in the CALS Community. If you missed this event, you missed top leaders in Huntsville discussing their views of what and how new technology will shape the future.

Many of the problems of Legacy data management were discussed with hands on views from today's implementers. Discussions ranged from legacy databases that are critical to implementation to Internet connections to old systems. The Internet was a big focus for this discussion as more companies are moving to intra and internet browsers to display data.

Also discussed was the small businessman/woman of Huntsville and how technology could reach out to them. There are many systems that change dynamically such as lumber prices that are needed by contractors. It was discussed how internet connections could help these people.

With us to discuss were Jim Duhig, of the Atlanta Electronic Commerce Resource Center and Neil Hall a research engineer with the ECRC. They brought an overview of what is happening in the region as well as individual companies that are implementing systems. They handed out a list of companies with phone numbers/internet addresses that comprise a wide range of categories. They also handed out some CALS internet addresses.

30 Jan 97

TOPIC: The Army: The Full Spectrum of Force

Sponsored by the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA)

11:30 - 1:00 PM

Madison Square Holiday Inn

Huntsville, Alabama

In support of the local AFCEA, AFEB members turned out to hear BG Harry Gatanas speak at an AFCEA luncheon. The presentation was very helpful to those involved in Army Contracting as it detailed the Army’s plans for the future in regard to purchasing and gave insights into why the Army is changing. Army Contractors picked up catch phases/language and items to zero in on for RFPs. Click here for the presentation

July 1997

July 15, 1997

The CALS, CM, and DM Workshop:
Interrelationships, New Approaches, and Future Directions

Date: July 15 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Place: Building 3448, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL

The HCIG, with leaders of the Huntsville Configuration Management/Data Management Area, worked together to produce results on CM/DM Issues using the electronic meeting format . The MICOM Electronic Meeting System group computerized support (Integrated Product Team ) technology provided cohesive and time saving mangement of the many CM/DM issues, their categorization, and the implementation of some result. Linda Burgher,Office of the Undersecretary of Defense CALS and EDI with CALS, DM, and CM responsibilities breifed the group on what the future of CM/DM was shaping up to be. To participate in working on CM/DM issues, you may click here to go to the discussion area for this session.

July 21, 1997

LOGSA - SOLE

presents:

The MICOM IDE and CALS Conference

"Browsing the CALS/IDE"

LOGSA/SOLE put together a great conference that allowed participants to understand the status, organization, and lessons learned of major IDE/CALS initiatives. Speakers included: Ms. Jean Lamb, US Army Material Command; Col Norman Myers, Ret.; Mr. Robert Doto, JCALS Program Manager, Mr. Robert Houts, JEDMICS Program Manager, Steven McGlone, Industrial Engineering Activity, James Dolan, JCALS PMO; Robert Norton, Logistics Integration Agency - Director, Logistics Tech Div; Mark Adams, DOD CALS Office; Donald Black, Defense Information System Agency, Chief engineer; Edward Dlugosz, Systems Resources Corp, Technical Director; COL (P) Daniel Labin, JTAV Task Force, Jeff Plotnick, VP of CALS imaging Center; Susan Pape, CSC; Don Stonecipher, MICOM LAISO, Jeff Lobaugh, ARS; John E. Peer III, USAMC Log Support Activity - Chief, Total Asset Visibilty Cntr; Marco Devito, CSC; Henry Younger, Engineering Data Mgm System Program Manager, AMC; Russell Peak, Atlanta ECRC; Maryann King, Raytheon and Joseph Quasney, Office of Asst. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense; directory, Logistics Business Systems. Cynthia Hauer and Dona Mason, two of the AFEB officers were also invited to share (presentation). For other presentations, contact the local Sole Chapter.

October 97

CALS EXPO USA 97

CALS EXPO was held October 13-16 at the Orange Country Convention Center in Orlando Florida. Cynthia Hauer gave a presentation at the Expo called "Managing Your Data on the Internet: Electronic Configuration and Data Management" (note: this presentation may be better viewed at a lower % - change at bottom left)  which was given in Track 4 Resolving Issues in Managing Data Session 4 Managing CALS Data.   She was also the track chair for this session.