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WHAT'S AVAILABLE--WHAT FEDERAL PLANNERS WANT: RESULTS OF THE FCC SURVEY
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... We received a relatively small response, and many of the experiences described by the respondents related to old systems that are no longer available. The task force concluded that the information would not be very useful to federal agencies contemplating investments in systems today.
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... This is the distribution of responses by agency: · Air Force-41 percent · Army-24 percent · Navy 12 percent · National Institutes of Healthy percent · Public Health Serviced percent · State Department percent · National Aeronautics and Space Administrations percent · Department of Veterans Affairs-2 percent One of the questions we asked was how the respondent's knowledge of and views about computer graphics in planning were acquired. Of the 51 respondents, 22 were planners, 15 had supervised planners, 22 had operated planning computer systems, 21 had administered planning computer systems, and 31 had taken courses in the subject.
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... Following are the percentages of respondents indicating a preference for various platforms: SOFTWARE Personal Computer-82.4 percent X Terminal-9.8 percent Engineering Workstation - 4.7 percent Mini Computer 27.5 percent Mainframe Computer-19.6 percent Super Computer-2.0 percent We then asked what type of applications software the respondent recommended for the system, such as Vector Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , Raster GIS, other image processing, Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD)
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... Despite the high costs of data, a recent General Accounting Office report found that relatively few federal agencies had a mechanism for coordinating GIS and sharing available data. Within the Naval facilities community, data sharing is a key issue.
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... (See Figure 2.) NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN DOD In a "What's Available" session, I would be remiss to not mention a couple of items becoming available to assist DOD and other federal agencies: the Tri-Service CADD/GIS Technology Center, which support facilities applications in the Department of Defense, and the Facilities CAD2 contract, which will be available to non-DOD federal agencies as well as to DOD components.
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... One contract was awarded to Intergraph Corporation; it provides Intergraph workstations, MicroStation CADD software and MGE GIS software. The other contract was awarded to Cordant, Inc.; it provides Sun workstations, AutoCAD CADD software, and Arc/Info GIS software.
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Key Terms

  • federal construction
  • construction council
  • gis software
  • facilities engineering
  • naval facilities

  • facilities management
  • applications software
  • cadd software
  • personal computers
  • raster gis

  • market growth
  • gis data
  • engineering command
  • technology center
  • electronic publishing

  • planning computer
  • planning activities
  • data model
  • output devices
  • graphics market

  • image processing
  • engineering workstations
  • experiment station
  • command headquarters
  • recommended networked

  • coordinating gis
  • technology refreshment
  • color printers
  • master planning
  • recommended architectures


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