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U.S. Navy Use of Databases Term Paper
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Topic:Marine Corps
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U.S. Navy: Use of Databases
The Internet has completely changed the way business is done around the globe now. It has revolutionized e-business completely at a speed that is faster than lightening. This has led to escalated growth in new business models, products, services, and marketplaces. With this major change, many businesses find it very challenging to keep abreast with the new economic trends.
With continuously changing technology, it is important to comprehend how technological changes affect business and what are the methods through which maximum potential can be extracted to attain better performance and also profitability.
Navy makes investments on the basis of their individual needs to make maximum use of technology to achieve the set goals. One of the software's used by the Navy is the Navy Training Management and Planning System.
NTMPS is a database system that is used by the Navy as a Training Management System controlled by the Chief of Naval Education and Training. This system provides facilities of multiple funding, personnel, manpower, equipment and training courses information databases in a single, integrated database for all levels of training management and planning. The following information can be retrieved for online access:
Data Sources: - NUWCDIVNPT, Code 2232, integrates data from several Navy database systems, Navy documents and contractor files into a single database for use by Senior Navy Training managers throughout the Navy Education and Training Command (NAVEDTRACOM), Warfare Sponsors at CNO and the AEGIS Training Center, Type Commanders and every Submarine currently in service.
NTMPS Data Dictionary: - A description of all data elements in the NTMPS database.
NTMPS Table Descriptions: - A description of all tables in the NTMPS database.
Points of Contact: - Names and phone numbers of members of the NTMPS community.
Source: Navy Training Management and Planning System Web Page]
Computer Sciences Corporation has a contract worth over $30 million with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, to integrate software engineering software systems for the Navy Training Management and Planning System. The contract is for eight years. During this time NTMPS will be converted to a web-based system to allow users to develop special studies and reports, this way they can work strategically to meet certain naval challenges.
CSC is pleased to focus its sustained experience with the U.S. Navy and information technology on NTMPS at a time when planning and management have become so crucial to the national defense," said Aaron Fuller, vice president and general manager of CSC's Navy/Marine Corps and Missile Defense business unit.
The Navy…
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Amazon.com: Software: Microsoft Access 2002, available at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005B0BZ/002-2,accessed on: November 16, 2003
CSC: CSC WINS $30 MILLION NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER CONTRACT March 4, 2002, available at http://www.csc.com/newsandevents/news/1679.shtml, accessed on: November 16, 2003
Navy Training Management and Planning System Web Page, available at http://www.ntmps.navy.mil/,accessed on: November 16, 2003
CSC: CSC WINS $30 MILLION NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER CONTRACT March 4, 2002, http://www.csc.com/newsandevents/news/1679.shtml
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