TRW wins $40.8 million contract for California Prison Information System.CARSON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1995--TRW's Systems Integration Group has been awarded a $40.8 million contract to develop and install a computerized management information system for the state of California's Department of Corrections. The Correctional Management Information System (CMIS (Common Management Information Services) Pronounced "c-miss." An OSI standard that defines the functions for network monitoring and control. CMIS - Common Management Information Services ) is intended to help the department manage its growing inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. population with a new, efficient computerized information system. CMIS will link 75 state correctional facilities into local area networks, and a statewide area network that will track inmate data, including transfers, calculate release dates, record trust account information, job assignments and other related data. CMIS will provide accurate and immediate access to offender information, integrating independent systems and automating many functions that are currently performed manually. Work on the six year contract is expected to begin shortly and state-wide implementation is expected to be completed by mid-1997. The work will be performed by TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc Systems Integration Group's Data Technologies Division, based in Carson. The CMIS project will be based on a client/server distributed database A database physically stored in two or more computer systems. Although geographically dispersed, a distributed database system manages and controls the entire database as a single collection of data. architecture. This architecture links servers and personal computers across a network, enabling them to share information on a real-time basis while eliminating the need for an expensive mainframe computer with a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. database. The planned system will accommodate future growth, more advanced technologies as they become available and will have extensive systems security. TRW brings over a decade of experience utilizing client/server distributed database architectures in its aerospace/defense work. For example, TRW has developed systems that are technically similar to CMIS, such as the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Army's Standard Theater Army Command and Control System (STACCS STACCS Standard Theater Army Command and Control System ). STACCS is a command and control system. TRW's Systems Integration Group performs systems engineering and systems integration, and develops and installs command and control systems, information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. systems and security systems for federal government agencies, industry contractors, and international customers. Cleveland-based TRW Inc. is an international company that provides high technology products and services to the automotive, space and defense, and information systems markets. Sales in 1993 were $7.9 billion. CONTACT: TRW Inc., Fairfax, Va.
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