AFEI honors award winners at Second Annual EXPO.The Association for Enterprise Integration has announced the winners of its Second Annual Excellence in Enterprise Integration Awards. The top industry award went to Parsons Corporation Founded in 1944, Parsons is one of the largest 100% employee-owned engineering and construction companies in the United States, with revenues exceeding $3.3 billion in 2006. It is headquartered in Pasadena, California. , of Pasadena, Calif., for its work in Iraq. Parsons was chosen for its innovative use of technology, strategic impact with significant results and real-time implementation of enterprise integration, said AFEI AFEI Association For Enterprise Integration President David Chesebrough. The top government award went to the Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool. MERIT--developed by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, of Johnstown, Pa.--has saved the Marines more than two million man-hours per year. The Industry Honorable Mention Award went to the Common Parts Catalog, a joint project of Electric Boat Corporation, Bath Iron Works Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine. Since its foundation in 1884 by Thomas W. Hyde, Bath Iron Works has built private, commercial and military vessels. , Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (NGSS) is the division of Northrop Grumman Corporation responsible for building small and medium shipping products. A separate sector of Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Newport News, is responsible for nuclear submarines and supercarriers. and Computer Sciences Corporation. Two Government Honorable Mention Awards were presented. One went to the Air National Guard's Air Reserve Component Distributed Training Operations Center The Distributed Training Operations Center (DTOC) is the Iowa Air National Guard center for Distributed Mission Operations located in Des Moines, Iowa (USA). Distributed Mission Operations, or DMO, is a component of the Air Force Training Transformation initiative. . The second went to NaW Distance Support, operated by the Naval Sea Systems Command The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the U.S. Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel organizations. NAVSEA consists of four shipyards, eight "warfare centers" (two undersea and six surface), four major shipbuilding locations and the NAVSEA headquarters, , Naval Supply Systems Command, Naval Sea Logistics Center and Fleet Technical Support Centers. AFEI received more than 60 nominations for the awards. Winners demonstrated the best applications of technology and leadership to improve performance, Chesebrough said. Other winning features, he said, included real implementations, project breadth, clear and innovative use of technology and plus strategic impact. The awards program is part of AFEI's annual Enterprise Integration EXPO, which was held this year in Anaheim, Calif. The 2005 program will open in May 2005, and winners will be honored the following September at next year's EXPO in Washington, D.C. For more information: www.afei.org. |
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