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.
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.
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 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.
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
Mr. Bogosian emphasized current Aviation programs and the move of ATCOM to MICOM at the
AFEB Luncheon. Information on how Army Aviation PEO currently does CALS and wants to
expand into CALS more fully was presented. Click here for his presentation.
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.
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.
