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Unisys Selected to Upgrade Pennsylvania State Police's Criminal History System; New Project Extends Long-Standing Outsourcing Agreement with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.


BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined.  (NYSE NYSE

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:UIS (graphics, programming) UIS - A VMS graphics programming interface package for VAXstations. ) today announced that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has awarded it a new contract change order to upgrade and manage the infrastructure that supports the Pennsylvania State Police's Computerized Criminal History Record Information System (CCHRI CCHRI California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative
CCHRI California Cooperative HEDIS Reporting Initiative
). The CCHRI plays a critical role in rapidly disseminating criminal history data and information to criminal justice agencies, non-criminal justice agencies and individuals on request.

Under the terms of the 56-month change order, Unisys will work with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to revamp re·vamp  
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1. To patch up or restore; renovate.

2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example).

3. To vamp (a shoe) anew.

n.
 the current CCHRI infrastructure to accelerate the flow of vital police information between law enforcement jurisdictions. Unisys solution is also designed to reduce operational costs by seamlessly transitioning the state's system to a Unisys ES7000 standardized standardized

pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures.


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standardized mortality rate
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 Intel-based environment with no service level disruptions. Unisys will manage the system as part of Pennsylvania's Data PowerHouse, from which Unisys provides IT outsourcing and technical support for the state.

"Having worked with Unisys for many years, we believe it is the ideal partner to help us transform the Pennsylvania State Police's criminal history system into a next generation law enforcement data center operation," said Dean Stefan, manager of Pennsylvania's Data PowerHouse initiative. "We believe the new system will enable the Commonwealth's law enforcement to more efficiently and effectively track, report and share vital information with other law enforcement organizations."

Under the agreement, Unisys will provide CCHRI application development and systems integration, four ES7000 servers, seven commodity servers and third-party software including Microsoft's MS SQL Server See Microsoft SQL Server.  2000 and MS BizTalk Server Software from Microsoft that provides integration between business processes within an enterprise and between different organizations. BizTalk Server uses protocol implementations called "adapters" to communicate with applications and includes built-in adapters and a framework for  2004. Unisys will also provide maintenance, network upgrades, asset management and technical and operations support.

"Systems such as CCHRI are vital to the state police force and citizens of Pennsylvania," said Mark Danis, vice president and managing partner, Unisys North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  Public Sector. "Unisys is proud to continue our relationship with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as we work to move their law enforcement data center into the future."

The new CCHRI project builds on Unisys long-standing relationship as a provider of operations outsourcing and technical support for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Data PowerHouse initiative. In 2001, Unisys worked with the Pennsylvania State Police The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) is the state police force of Pennsylvania, responsible for statewide law enforcement. It was founded in 1905 by order of Governor Samuel Pennypacker, in response to the private police forces used by mine and mill owners to stop worker strikes  to unite three separate criminal record systems into one powerful system. Unisys also worked with the Commonwealth to successfully consolidate and outsource 21 state agency data centers, making Pennsylvania the first and only state to successfully outsource and consolidate multiple data centers into a single enterprise data center for mission critical application processing.

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