When the Data Isn’t There…
January 3rd, 2001It didn’t happen all that frequently, but once or twice a year, engineers at the Stinger Product Office in Huntsville, Alabama, home of the Army’s Stinger anti-aircraft missile, would go to the files looking for an old test report-and it wouldn’t be there. The reason:
“Engineers change jobs, and get new assignments, just as everyone else does,” David C. Kennedy, P.E., an electronics engineer there, said recently. “When an engineer leaves, nobody knows what was kept in his personal files. Office file space is limited, both for classified and non-classified material. Decisions have to be made, on what to keep and what to discard.
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