DOD Automated Time and Attendance Production System (DATAAPS)

U.S. Army TACOM

Life Cycle Management Command

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Principal Architect Executive Advisor

Mar 1996 – Jan 1999

Summary

The U.S. Army Tank-automotive Armaments Command (TACOM) Integrated Logistics Support Center (ILSC) is responsible for sustaining war fighting readiness and managing a large part of the Army’s investment in war fighting capacity as integrator of nearly 3,000 weapon systems that form the core of the Army’s war fighting capability.

EMSI won 3 consecutive contract awards to support US Army TACOM ILSC. Tasked to provide Enterprise Architecture, Technical Guidance, Leadership, Training, Design, Oversight and full life-cycle development to the first mainframe application from ILSC to be downsized to a Win32 based Client Server platform.  The application received data feeds from the mainframe and UNIX platforms and also acted as financial data feeder to DCPS for civilian payroll processing.

Highlights

• First release was deployed in 3 months.
• Initial installation supported 5,000 DOD employees and contractors
• Standard Application Functions:
  • Employee entry of leave and hours worked by task (job order/cost)
  • Supervisor certification of employee time card
  • Timekeeper entry of labor/leave for employees unable to do so
  • Management of employee / cost relationships
  • Control of user roles within the organization
  • Inquiries and reports, including missing time,leave reports
  • Work Center/Cost Center Management
  • Holiday Maintenance

Environment & Tools

• Powersoft PowerBuilder, PFC
• Sybase SQL Server, SQL
• Agile Methodology