MTMC program office expands mission, changes name.A Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a program is broadening its mission--and changing its name as well. Continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. Freight Management is now called Global Freight Management. In recent years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time program's mission has expanded from the automation of installation transportation offices' domestic freight movement to include international shipments. The expanded mission of the office will include the addition of international air freight air freight n → flete m por avión air freight n → fret aérien air freight air n → Luftfracht f rates. "The name change more correctly reflects our evolving mission," said Dianne Constable, Chief, Functional Requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. Office. The suggestion to change the name came from MTMC's Transportation Systems Review Committee. "The name `global' just makes sense," said Lt. Col. Henry Abercrombie, Product Manager. "With the growth of the Web, we can be accessed from all over the world." The name change was officially approved Jan. 18 by the Army Acquisition Executive Support Agency. It was implemented by MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD) MTMC Mount Marty College MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol) MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) the same day. The Continental United States Freight Management, or CFM, name has been in use since 1988. "The change is a logical one," said Steve Russell
"Not only does it reflect our current position, but it recognizes the functionality enhancements that are currently being developed and planned." Examples of this expanded mission include the pending release of Worldwide Express, which will give transportation offices the ability to ship small packages under 150 pounds internationally via air freight. In its 13 years of existence, the office has boasted many accomplishments. Its staffers developed the Army's first automated transportation offices' freight movement system with prepayment audit capability. Originally, it allowed transportation offices to obtain specific freight carrier tenders via modem--ranked by cost. This system transitioned to the Web in 1998. The Web version included a spot-bid bulletin board posting that allowed carriers to submit a one-time, all-inclusive bid. The office's 93 employees are located at MTMC Headquarters, in Alexandria, Va. |
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