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AN HONOR AND A CHALLENGE


PETER MOROSOFF President Electronic Mapping Systems Inc. (E-MAPS) Woodbridge, VA


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-MAPS focuses on information interoperability and management, computer- ized geographic information, bridging the gap between users and developers of information technology, and ontology [the study of reality and how it’s represented, applied to how information is organized and shared; you take


weather into account when designing a ship, and ontology into account when design- ing an information technology system]. In 25 years, E-MAPS, support has included an 18-month U.S. Army Corps of Engineers environmental survey, military experimenta- tion, organizing repositories of information developed in advanced concept technology demonstrations (ACTDs) and studies on information sharing. Our customers have included the Army, ACTDs, the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory.


If the Army wants to realize the potential benefit of small business innovation, the Army needs a knowledge management system whereby (1) information on small busi- nesses’ ideas, services and products can be placed and cataloged, and (2) government officials, developers and other contractors can discover these ideas, services and prod- ucts when a need for them arises.


Representatives of the Army and other DOD organizations constantly talk with rep- resentatives of small businesses but usually do not (1) know who or what organization within the Army has or will have a need for the small business’s idea, service or prod- uct or (2) have an enterprise knowledge system into which they can enter and catalog information provided by the small business. Tis is why a knowledge management system is needed where important information about an idea, service or product can be recorded and cataloged. Lacking such a system, the Army as an enterprise (or indeed DOD in general) remains unaware of almost every idea, service or product offered by small businesses.


[Such a] system should not be confused with repositories such as the Defense Technical Information Center, which does not separately list small business offerings and ideas. Te lack of such a knowledge system leads the Army to (1) inadvertently duplicate development work that a small business has already completed and explained to an Army representative; or (2) fill a need by purchasing a second-rate product even though the Army has already been informed of a first-rate product that will fill the need.


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Army AL&T Magazine


January-March 2016


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