The awards, signed by FAA's director of NAS Operations, and its manager of the Telecommunications and International Support Division, conveyed appreciation for the outstanding leadership and technical contributions leading to the design and implementation of the TIMS Wide Area Network capability. ALP is focused on defining and developing radically improved ways of managing logistics functions in an operational military environment. The InterCon tool provides a capability for establishing and supporting the efforts of ad hoc teams that will employ the tool to complete their tasks by using the Internet. Access to their work is automatically limited to task group members by built-in access controls. The InterCon tool also enables posting of documents, commenting on documents, action item management, and other functions that enable team members to manage the work process.
Participants can locate items in documents and discussions using a keyword search tool as well.
The Center recently developed a capability to display relevant military-specific flight data on the desktop work platforms of AMC logisticians and planners. Through cooperation with the Center's Automation Applications Concepts Division, ETMS data are automatically converted to formats useful in common commercial desktop applications.