Air Force Awards Tivoli Systems Desktop Management Contract Through Logicon's I-CASE Program; 18-Month Deployment to 17 Air Force Bases Underway.Business/Technology/Defense Editors HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 Tivoli(R) Systems Inc. has partnered with Logicon Inc., a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) company, to deliver a desktop management (DTM DTM dermatophyte test medium. ) solution for the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command  Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) is a major command of the United States Air Force. (AFMC AFMC Air Force Materiel CommandAFMC Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care AFMC Armed Forces Medical College (Pune, India) AFMC Armed Forces of America Motorcycle Club AFMC Auxiliary Fuel Management Computer ). The award, made by the Air Force Standard Systems Group (SSG SSG abbr. staff sergeant ), includes software, maintenance, training and comprehensive implementation services. When implementation is complete in about 18 months, Tivoli Enterprise(TM) will be used to manage more than 120,000 desktops across 17 U.S. Air Force bases in the Materiel Command. The desktop management functions will allow each base to automatically inventory all hardware and software in the network-connected desktops. In addition, the system can download software and perform updates on existing software throughout the base network. &uot;Automating inventory and software distribution across our large information technology(IT) environment will bring immediate benefits as we must now depend on personnel to manually perform these tasks,&uot; said Dennis Volpe, Information Programs Officer, Electronic Systems Center, AFMC. &uot;Our long-term goal is to have our environment managed under one software system, as we anticipate that this will ease both knowledge transfer and training requirements.&uot; &uot;Tivoli Enterprise is now being used to manage complex IT environments in each branch of the Department of Defense (DoD),&uot; said Marty Fredrickson, Tivoli's director of Government Sales. &uot;Tivoli addresses IT issues critical to the readiness of DoD organizations including software distribution, remote control, inventory management and desktop configuration.&uot; AFMC selected SSG and Logicon's Integrated Computer Aided Software Engineering (programming) Computer Aided Software Engineering - (CASE, or "assisted") A technique for using computers to help with one or more phases of the software life-cycle, including the systematic analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software. (I-CASE (Integrated-CASE) CASE systems that generate applications code directly from design specifications. Features include support for rapid prototyping, modeling the data and processing and drawing logic diagrams. I-CASE - Integrated CASE. Another term for an IPSE. ) contract to assist with the competition among four designated suppliers. All four are part of the I-CASE indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, which handles enterprise-wide licensing agreements for the federal government. Logicon coordinated the collection of all proposals and pricing from the four selected suppliers and made initial evaluations of the solutions. This assisted AFMC in quickly completing its evaluation. &uot;Having AFMC select Logicon's I-CASE to assist with this complex and speedy acquisition was successful because of our ongoing relationship with each of the selected suppliers as well as our experience with previous DoD-wide software acquisitions,&uot; said Vince Steckler, vice president of Logicon's Applications Solutions unit. About Logicon Inc. Logicon Inc., headquartered in Herndon, is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, and a leader in advanced information technologies, systems and services. Areas of expertise include command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance may refer to:
C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance C4ISR Command Control Communications Computers Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance ); weapon systems; information systems; training and simulation; science and technology; base and range support; and systems support services. About Tivoli Systems Inc. Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform IT management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software and Tivoli Ready products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) company (NYSE: IBM). Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com. Tivoli and Tivoli Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both. In Denmark, Tivoli is a trademark licensed from Kjobenhavns Sommer - Tivoli A/S. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other company, product, and service names may be the trademarks or service marks of others. |
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