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CALS
CALS is a strategy to achieve an Integrated
Data Environment for the exchange of business and technical
information among government and industrial enterprises.
"Corporations, Divisions, Departments working together
simultaneouly, producing, manufacturing, designing, servicing
or selling products over geographically different locations
where all of the contractual, technical, manufacturing, service
and sales data is exchanged electronically."
The following information outlines the
growth and development of the CALS initiative as represented
through the transformation of its name. It shows the move
from defense and weapons techology and logistics to commerce
and electronic communications of the information super highway.
1986
- Computer-Aided
Logistic Support (CALS)
1988 - Computer-aided
Acquisition & Logistic
Support (CALS)
1990 - Computer-aided
Acquisition & Life-cycle
Support (CALS)
1992 - Continuous
Acquisition & Life-cycle
Support (CALS)
1995 - Commerce
At Light Speed
(CALS)
ILT
and CALS
ILT has developed and supported the first
true implementation of CALS and it's commercialization as
the first COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) software in this
area.
- MIL-R-28002G Tiled Raster Image Format
(TRIF) and
- MIL-STD-1840B (Automated Interchange
of Technical Information)
- Developed the world's first ASN.1 (Abstract
Syntax Notation) compiler
- Member of the Tiled Raster standard
committee
- Member of the CALS Test Network (CTN)
- ILT supplied the CTN ( The U.S. Government's
compliance testing network) with the Open Document Architecture
(ODA) Tool.
- ODA Tool incorporates the functions
of: Conversion, Creation, Viewing and Evaluation of CALS MIL-R-28002B
raster files.
- ILT supplies MIL-STD-1840B
Tape tool
For more information on ILT's experience
with CALS, please download our .pdf file here
or at the top of the page.
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