Science Applications International Corporation
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| The new
Oracle-based Water Information System (WIS) of the Jordan Ministry
of Water and Irrigation allow users a quick and easy access to retrieve
and analyze water resources data with a high level of reliability |
SAMPLE
PROJECTS
Integrated
Management Information System of the Jordanian Ministry of Water and
Irrigation
SAIC
performed site surveys, network engineering and network installation
for the migration of legacy computer systems of the Jordan Ministry
of Water and Irrigation (MWI) and its affiliated agencies to state-of-the-art
management information systems. This work included the engineering of
an appropriate network topology to allow free flow of information from
one Ministry department to another. In addition to the implementation
of a 600+ drop Ethernet local area network with a fiber optic backbone,
SAIC helped to define storage and information server requirements to
take the Ministry into the 21st century. SAIC developed the Concept
of Operations Plan and supported the development new information management
policies and procedures. SAIC also assisted the Ministry to migrate
critical water resource data from FoxPro based central databases to
a newly developed client/server Oracle relational database system. The
FoxPro database, which consisted of five separate data sets, resulted
in over 2.5 million records in the Oracle-based system. The migration
effort was accomplished in less than six months and resulted in over
99 percent migration of the FoxPro data. By automating the conversion
process, an additional benefit to the Ministry was the implementation
of consistency checks on the data. This rigorous database analysis resulted
in dramatic improvements in the quality of the data after conversion.
Development
of an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Program Tunisia Ministry of
Environment
SAIC
worked closely with the Tunisia's Ministry of Environment (MoE) and
USAID to develop and obtain initial multi-source funding for an $8 million
integrated coastal zone management planning, policy and technical development
program. This was the first-ever coastal zone management effort in the
country. A demonstration project funded under a partnership with USAID
resulted in developing a nation-wide ICZM program proposal that was
presented to the MoE. The program was prepared through the collaboration
of a multi-disciplinary team of organizations responsible for environmental
protection and pollution prevention, marine research, coastal security,
emergency management, and information technology. The pilot project
was used to show how seafloor characterization technologies, such as
REMOTS and laser line scan systems could be used to assess the health
of the coastal zone, and establish baselines for future development
and economic activities.
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