TEA's Web information server wins twin awards.The Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server has won additional praise for MTMC's Transportation Engineering Agency. The Web-based geographic information server has won two more awards for the Newport News Newport News, independent city (1990 pop. 170,045), SE Va., on the Virginia peninsula, at the mouth of the James River, off Hampton Roads, near Norfolk; inc. 1896. , Va., agency. Recognition has come from the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Park Ridge Park Ridge, city (1990 pop. 36,175), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb adjacent to Chicago, on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1873. It is chiefly residential. Several national and international corporations have their headquarters in Park Ridge. Nearby is O'Hare International Airport. , Ill.; and the E-Government Conference, Washington, D.C. The server was recognized for its ability to give immediate access to critical global infrastructure and cargo data for military deployment Military deployment is the movement of armed forces and their logistical support infrastructure. In most of the world's navies, a deployment designates an extended period of duty at sea. planners. The server assesses information from existing Web sites. An Enterprise Honorable Mention was presented Oct. 13 to 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) at the Regional Information Systems Association's annual meeting in Atlanta. "We are absolutely delighted at the recognition," said Paul Allred, coordinator. "A lot of people put a lot of effort in this program. "The Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server fulfills the military need for a secure, flexible application to provide one common operation picture for tracking of military shipments and critical infrastructure information," said the award citation. "Overall, the Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server is an excellent system design, implementation and integration of several technologies into a near real-time response system." Other recognition came from the E-Government Conference, in Washington, D.C., on June 10. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and Accenture, a New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects and technology service, selected the server as the best practice in digital government at the federal government level. The two organizations recognized the server to honor the best practice in existing services delivered by the Internet. "We were selected as the winner of the Federal Category from among 200 nominations," said Allred. The purpose of the awards is to recognize best practices in digital government and higher education in the United States Higher education in the United States refers to colleges and universities within the United States. Overview The American university system, like the American educational system in general, is highly decentralized because the U.S. . "I'm extremely pleased and proud of the level of success that the Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server has had in a relatively short time," said William Cooper, director, Transportation Engineering Agency. "It's quickly becoming the system of choice for spatial tracking of Department of Defense cargoes worldwide. "I'm a big believer that Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server has huge implications for transportation security and homeland defense," said Cooper. Additional information on Intelligent Road/Rail Information Server is available at www.irris.tea.army.mil. |
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