Posts Tagged ‘military’

Paper Insurgency

Staying the course with Laserfiche document management

May 23rd, 2008

When it comes to supporting the aircraft that help soldiers protect citizens, no detail is too small to record. That’s why the US Army’s Cargo Helicopters Project Management Office (CHPMO) maintains exhaustive records on every design feature, maintenance procedure and safety analysis performed worldwide on the CH-47 “Chinook” helicopter. With 400 staff members generating new records every day, and with thousands of records series to follow, managing all these records is no easy task. Full story »

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When the Data Isn’t There…

January 3rd, 2001

It 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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