Business Areas
US Navy Submarine Base Kings Bay Office Automation System Support
MANDEX provides software engineering and technological evaluation support for the Kings Bay Office Automation System applications. Typical systems software applications include: financial tracking and management, scheduling, forms tracking, action item tracking, document management, spread sheets, data base applications, CAD, business graphics, and bar coding. Software development and maintenance includes ORACLE and DBASE in a mixed UNIX and PC client server environment. We have developed over 100 application systems in this environment since establishing our office in the mid 1980s. Services on the contract include the following:
- Analyses of user requirements and assessments of system/application alternatives,
- Systems analysis/engineering of Information Systems and application program development,
- Help Desk support and equipment installation and repair,
- Technical studies on use and costs of resources to support SUBASE information systems, data communications, telecommunications and LAN requirements,
- Training on data communications, telecommunications, LANs, and application programs.
MANDEX has conducted systems analysis and developed
numerous database applications and utility programs and
converted a set of applications to Windows
environment.
Technical Support to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Information Resources Management
MANDEX researches advanced techniques for video and other data transmission requirements such as electronic data interchange for extremely large documentation files form the NRC Technology Advancement Board. These efforts have required in-depth considerations of telecommunication interfaces with the internet and future developments in broadband and fiber optic technologies. We developed a remote telecommunications UNIX workstation application design using ISDN 128K bandwidth. The requirement was to access to the internet from remote sites to transfer large amounts of information NRC is placing in the public domain via the internet and web browsers.
We support a software development team whose purpose is to maintain a large document retrieval system which is an application of integrated commercial off the shelf products which includes Oracle database, Verity Topic full text indexing and retrieval software, and Visix Galaxy Graphical User Interface integration tool. CDOCS is C and Pro C application that is implemented as a client/server concept using Remote Procedure Calls embedded in the Solaris 5.5.1 operating system on the UNIX Ethernet network of clients and server and the FTP Onnet product on the PC client token ring network. Maintenance task includes modifying the Oracle database tables, creating export files for other agencies, importing data from other agencies, changing embedded SQL Pro C programs, system administration such as sharing file systems, adding users and clients, backups, network troubleshooting, modifying the look and feel of the GUI client, and maintaining the documentation. The task includes configuration management of source code using RCS and operating an online internal home page for user information and collecting trouble reports and user requests for enhancement.
MANDEX has supported an agency wide LAN/WAN that links its ten offices in the Wash DC area, five regional offices around the country, and links with power reactor sites, the National Institute of Health (NIH), and several national laboratories. MANDEX provides software engineers and database documentation specialists to conduct the following range of tasking:
- technical assistance on evaluation of advanced networking and computing technologies,
- evaluate cost /operational impacts of proposed new initiatives to LAN/WAN environments,
- support NRC's WWW on the internet and set up MOSAIC prototype on a WWW server and
- address issues of electronic data
exchange.
INFRASTRUCTURE support to SPAWARSYSCEN
MANDEX provides information technology services that include design, installation, and maintenance of telephone and data communications systems cable plant and user interface termination plus system administration and help desk support for LAN systems.
We provided project management and engineering oversight for two major installations for telephone and data communications. We designed and led the installation of the integrated data networks for the new command wide telecommunications network. Our staff prepared system service requests and data usage estimates. For this task, MANDEX provided studies and analysis of plans for organizational support requirements such as telecommunications, computers, VTC and facility layout. We have installed fiber and copper cables for secure and non-secure voice and data circuits to support an infrastructure for over one thousand users. Our staff is fully trained and expert in telephone circuit installation techniques including CAT 5 and fiber cable.
The system environment encountered on this contract includes the following:
- HARDWARE: HP 770/TAC-4, HP 750/TAC-3, NEXT, Sun S100, Sun SC1000, Video Switches, Video Distribution Amplifiers, Macintosh, IBM PCs. CISCO routers (2500, 3000, 4000 series), and Cabletron ATM;
- SOFTWARE: Windows NT, Novell, HP Openview, UNIX and DOS OS, Solaris 5.5.1 OS, C, C++, CC Mail and various commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application packages;