1999 Government Technology Leadership Awards Contacts

ere is contact information for the winners of the eighth annual Government Technology Leadership Awards.

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
Summary: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service's $540 million severe weather forecasting system.
Contact: Mary Glackin, Project Manager (301) 713-1975
Web site: http://www.noaa.gov/

Airborne LIDAR Topographic Mapping System
Summary: A NASA topographic mapping unit which creates data used by emergency response managers, conservationists, engineers, prospectors, security personnel and planners.
Contact: George Alcorn, Project Manager (301) 286-5810
Web site: http://www.nasa.gov/

Alternative Payments Initiative
Summary: The Electronic Tax Administration's initiative to give taxpayers multiple payment alternatives as the Internal Revenue Service shoots for 80 percent electronic filing by 2007.
Contact: Larry W. Faulkner, Project Manager (202) 283-4821
Web site: http://www.irs.gov

Community 2020 Planning Software CD-ROM Training Package
Summary: A computer based training package designed for users of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community 2020 Planning Software which is used in both the public and private sectors.
Contact: Pamela Glekas Spring, Chief of the Application and Marketing Branch in the Office of Community Connections (202) 708-0614, Ext. 4449
Web site: http://www.hud.gov/cpd/2020soft.html

Consolidated Information System
Summary: The U.S. Mint's $42.3 million Enterprise Resource Planning project to coordinate accounting, manufacturing, distribution, mail order and catalog sales. Project also includes a computerized maintenance management system.
Contact: Michael Zuckerman, Director of the Office of COINS (202) 216-1622
Web site: http://www.usmint.gov

Docket Management System
Summary: Moves Transportation Department public rule making and adjudicatory documents online giving the public access to policy decisions as they are being made. The online system is enabled for online electronic commenting by the public. This $4.3 million project hopes to save $1.27 million per year.
Contact: Charlotte Boeck, Project Manager (202) 366-4713
Web site: http://dms.dot.gov/

EnviroMapper
Summary: EPA's effort to deliver environmental and regulatory data via the Web. The system integrated this map and text data at a cost of $170,000.
Contact: Dave Wolf, Program Manager (202) 260-3075
Web site: http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/index.html

Government Services Express
Summary: The General Services Administration has partnered with other federal and state agencies to provide government service centers in malls around the nation. The first two are located in California and Massachusetts. The centers feature interactive kiosks which access government information via the internet.
Contact: Mary Filipini, Project Manager (415) 522-3001
Web site: http://www.gsa.gov

Hilbert-Huang Method
Summary: A $300,000 NASA data analysis and processing project which is utilized by almost 60 universities and government laboratories. Uses include testing during submarine development by the Navy Surface Warfare Center and ocean oscillation analysis for climate studies by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Contact: Norden E. Huang, Research Scientist (301) 286-5713
Web site: http://www.nasa.gov

Indian Health Performance Evaluation System
Summary: The Phoenix Area Indian Health Service's performance measurement system which maintains accreditation for patient care, as well as third party revenue generation. The IHPES takes special steps to address health issues of the American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
Contact: Michael V. Gomez, Program Manager (505) 248-4152
Web site: http://www.ihs.gov/

Information Technology Solution Shop, Integrated Task Order Management System and GSA Advantage
Summary: The General Service Administration's Federal Technology Service's $8.5 million end-to-end procurement system and the Federal Supply Service's multiple awards schedules' online mall.
Contact: John Prahm, IT Solutions Fusion Group Leader (703) 605-9771; David Griffin, ITSS Project Manager (619) 537-2211
Web site: http://www.fts.gsa.gov/

Integrated Card Production System
Summary: ICPS replaces multiple Immigration and Naturalization Service card production systems. Now, INS issued cards, including green cards, can be produced from a single modular and upgradeable system. ICPS also works to make it harder to counterfeit INS issued cards.
Contact: Marion Metcalf, Project Manager (202) 616-7063
Web site: http://www.ins.usdoj.gov

Internet Tumor Board
Summary: An online forum which enables military medical personnel to gain access to the Tripler Army Medical Center's Tumor Board. Gives patients and doctors access to oncology care no matter the location.
Contact: Mary Nilges, Project Manager, (808) 433-1082
Web site: http://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/

Management Reform Memorandum #15: Reengineering the Defense Transportation Documentation and Financials Process
Summary: The Defense Department's $18.8 million initiative to adopt "transportation industry best commercial practices." Initiative features include the adoption of standard commercial documentation and the implementation of PowerTrack, an online payment and transaction system. PowerTrack will reduce government payment times to contractors from an average of 60 days to 3. DoD projects annual savings of $11.17 million.
Contact: Alan Estevez, Assistant for Traffic Management (703) 614-5166; Ken Stombaugh, Assistant for Traffic Management (703) 614-5167
Web site: http://www.defenselink.mil/

'Meandering Path' Geophysical Investigations
Summary: Army Corps of Engineers project which utilizes recent Global Positioning System technology advances to help prepare sites with unexploded ordnance for decontamination. This project enables the Corps to spend less on site preparation and more on unexploded ordnance detection and removal. Site preparation used to include vegetation clearing and more labor intensive mapping techniques.
Contact: Roger Young, Senior Geologist (256) 895-1629
Web site: http://www.usace.army.mil/

The National Atlas of the United States of America
Summary: U.S. Geological Survey project to integrate demographic, environmental, economic, social, political and historical data in an online geographic format.
Contact: Jay Donelly, Managing Editor (703) 648-5395
Web site: http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/

National Biological Information Infrastructure
Summary: U.S. Geological Survey project which creates an online network of biological data.
Contact: Anne Frondorf, Program Manager (703) 648-4205
Web site: http://www.nbii.gov/

Operating Online
Summary: Postal Rate Commission (PRC) electronic filing system which keeps various pleadings with the commission electronic. The PRC also converted its old pleadings into electronic formats for search and retrieval purposes. This is important because a single pleading can include up to 35,000 pages in documents. This data was copied up to 149 times which could then equal over 5.2 million printed pages. This $370,000 project could save $150,000 per year.
Contact: Leona Anasiewicz, Information Resources Analyst and Librarian (202) 789-6840
Web site: http://www.prc.gov/

Real Estate Assessment Center Inspection System
Summary: Department of Housing and Urban Development program which institutes a new inspection protocol and gives inspectors pen-based computers with which to capture inspection data. The pen-based computers download site information at the beginning of the day and upload the inspection results at the end.
Contact: Donald J. LaVoy, Project Manager (202) 708-4924
Web site: http://www.hud.gov/reac/

Weather Support to De-Icing Decision Making
Summary: A $4.6 million FAA project aimed at using Doppler radar, surface weather data, and snow gauges to aid pilots, controllers and dispatchers in making deicing decisions which can prevent crashes and delays.
Contact: David A. Sankey, (202) 366-8985
Web site: http://www.faa.gov

WxMap
Summary: A Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center implementation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created WxMap. WxMap enables forecasters to integrate data from Fleet Numerical and the National Weather Service and displays the results on the Web.
Contact: Joseph Cannon, Computer Specialist (831) 656-4877
Web site: http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/

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