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TASK 8: IETM Conversion Services
Final IETM Conversion Service Concept of Operation (November 7, 1996)
The resource critical information area of the Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS) initiative provides technical information to weapon system operations and maintenance personnel. The relevant technologies deal with the authoring, migration, delivery, and maintenance of technical information for both new weapon systems and legacy weapon systems. A critical issue is how best to migrate the voluminous paper-form technical manuals on current weapon systems to interactive, Electronic Technical Manuals (ETMs) that reduce the labor-intensity for the authoring, maintenance, and delivery of technical information.
It is well known that the volume of paper-based technical manuals, engineering drawings, and documentation associated with any complex amalgamation of weapon systems (e.g., a ship) can be measured by the tonnage. Converting these documents from paper to an electronic form has been shown to reduce cost in producing the documents, storage requirements, and cost of maintaining and updating the electronic form once it has been converted.
ManTech has been contracted through the Integrated Data Environment (IDE) contract to design a standards-based approach for legacy data conversion to ETMs/Integrated ETMs (IETMs) constructs. This type of approach would help avoid the proliferation of electronic formats and would facilitate data interchange among dissimilar automated systems. The result of this design has taken the shape of a Concept of Operation to be used by Conversion Services in the Department of Defense (DoD). This conversion service concept document will address the general conversion processes involved, techniques used, specifications and standards that may be required, possible risks involved, how to provide a projected cost for a conversion project, and other requirements associated with the conversion effort.
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IETM Conversion Service Concept of Operation Demonstration Report (May 1996)
The resource critical information area of the Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS) initiative provides technical information to weapons system operations and maintenance personnel. The relevant technologies deal with the authoring, migration, delivery, and maintenance of technical information for both new weapon systems and legacy weapon systems. A critical issue is how best to migrate the voluminous paper-form technical manuals on current weapon systems to interactive, Electronic Technical Manuals (ETMs) that reduce the labor-intensity for the authoring, maintenance, and delivery of technical information.
It is well known that the volume of paper-based technical manuals, engineering drawings, and documentation associated with any complex amalgamation of weapon systems (i.e., a ship) can be measured by the tonnage. Converting these documents from paper to an electronic form has been shown to reduce cost in producing the documents, storage requirements, and cost of maintaining and updating the electronic form once it has been converted.
ManTech has been contracted through the Integrated Data Environment (IDE) contract to design a standards-based approach for legacy data conversion to ETMs/Integrated ETMs (IETMs) constructs. This type of approach would help avoid the proliferation of electronic formats and would facilitate data interchange among dissimilar automated systems. The result of this design has taken the shape of a Concept of Operation to be used by Conversion Services in the Department of Defense (DoD). This conversion service concept document has addressed the general conversion processes involved, techniques used, specifications and standards that may be required, possible risks involved, how to provide a projected cost for a conversion project, and other requirements associated with the conversion effort.
The goal was to define what general conversion processes and support activities that would be required for a conversion service, and how they would function. The term process or processes was defined as a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained. In this case, the end attained would be the completed ETM/IETM system.
The Concept of Operation report was written so that it can be adapted easily to any technical manual conversion project. The conversion processes were designed so that no matter what types of data the user starts with and what type of ETM/IETM desired, the general conversion process steps would be the same. The only differences between processes of the different class requirements would be how the process is accomplished, not what the process is.
The purpose of this report is to document in detail our proof of concept for the designed general conversion process and the overall conversion service organizational behavior.
Final Potential/Desirability Survey Report (January 29, 1996)
The resource critical information area of the Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS) initiative provides technical information to weapons system operations and maintenance personnel. The relevant technologies deal with the authoring, migration, delivery, and maintenance of technical information for both new weapon systems and legacy weapon systems. A critical issue is how best to migrate the voluminous paper-form technical manuals on current weapon systems to interactive, Electronic Technical Manuals (ETMs) that reduce the labor-intensity for the authoring, maintenance, and delivery of technical information.