Technadyne Engineering Consultants, Inc. offers state-of-the-art Internet and Intranet website development for commercial and government entities. We specialize in data driven web applications including full server-side processing designs.

The Technadyne Project Concept

The Technadyne plan for carrying out web development projects is based on our strong recommendation to the clients' website committee that the clients' new website design be data driven. In the context of that recommendation, website design and development is inextricably linked with database design and development. Technadyne will emphasize getting the design right. The design of the website and the underlying database that Technadyne develops will fully address all of the requirements of the client for its new website. It also lays the foundation for growth and for the incorporation of improved web and database technologies. Finally, the Technadyne design fully utilizes existing client resources, both the computing network resources and the data resources that client expects to transition to the new website.

Technadyne expects to have repeated close interactions with the clients' website subcommittee and others throughout the development project. These interactions are particularly important in the design phase, especially on development projects of this type which seek to field a complex product on an accelerated schedule. The clients' website subcommittee should understand that the Technadyne project team must have frequent access to the appropriate client design reviewers during this design phase of the project. Interactions will continue during the development and review of the prototypes.

Technadyne typically follows the initial website implementation phase with an operational review phase and adjustment of the final product. This step is warranted by the need to field a site that meets the clients'needs which in this case, can be determined ultimately only by some operational experience with the site. Therefore, Technadyne will continue close interaction with the client website committee all the way to the end of the project.

Normal Technadyne software engineering practice is to develop prototypes that become a usable part of the final version of the code. In some accelerated schedule cases, however, Technadyne can develop prototype screens to convey the look-and-feel as well as the design functionality prior to the development of the actual links between the databases that will drive the website and the website itself. This approach does require additional resources for the project, and initial development phase overlaps can be relaxed and reusable prototypes developed if the clients' goal for project completion could be extended.

Technadyne will work closely with the client during the design and implementation phases to identify data needs and to incorporate existing data into the project databases as efficiently as possible. However, our development does not include the development of data or data sources that the client does not currently have in a form that the project databases can readily incorporate. This means that, for example, data in a hand-written form or data that must be scanned from hard copy will have to be provided by clients' resources outside of the Technadyne project.

Technadyne will use commercially available, industry standard software development products wherever possible in carrying out our development projects. Specifically, Technadyne will use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as the database engine. Our development proposals assume that a client license for SQL Server 2000 will be available for the operational version of the databases that drive the website.

If you require further information, please contact Technadyne through either of the following parties:

Burton Newmark, President and CEO of Technadyne
Vanessa E. Van Dyk, Technadyne Human Resources Coordinator

Technadyne Engineering Consultants, Inc., has licensed CDOCS under the rights and licenses granted by Sandia National Labs (SNL), License Agreement No. 97-C0555, and is offering it to commercial and government entities.

Current classified and unclassified document management systems require a tremendous amount of space and extensive manpower to track, inventory, and protect documents. The main problem, however, is the actual handling of the paper. Most paper systems also suffer from the cost of searching for and recovering the information on the paper. The purpose of the Classified Document Control System (CDOCS) is to eliminate the need for paper by scanning and storing images of pages on a personal computer using high density optical media (WORM, Read/Write, or CD-ROM) or high density, high speed magnetic media. By saving images on the computer, not only can manpower and space requirements be reduced, but the chance of compromise is diminished. As an added benefit, the information is more readily available to the authorized user.

The CDOCS system consists of a personal computer, a high resolution video display (1600 x 1200 dpi), a dual removable-media disk drive (1 Gbyte per cartridge), a high speed scanner (40 pages per minute), and a laser printer. Microsoft Windows 3.11, Windows 95, or Windows NT is the platform on which CDOCS operates, with a user-friendly interface and intuitive data display. The system operates either standalone or on a network for expanded access.

Special features added early on to CDOCS include: (1) complete record management and keyword retrieval; (2) page change management to insert, delete, and replace pages in a document; (3) multi-level access control to images; and (4) complete tracking and reporting of system and document usage. There is also a myriad of additional features to aid the user in system management such as backup assistance, exporting text files, scanning images to TIFF files, and many others.

The latest improvements to CDOCS are the ability to OCR (optical character recognition) the images (recovers the text in the document) and the ability to index all the text in the document. Using this index complete full text retrieval capability is possible. In addition, complete image management has been added for deskewing, despecking, and removing horizontal and vertical lines. The capability for scanning, displaying, and printing color photos has also been added.

The most current complete system was delivered under tasking to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Headquarters in Washington DC. The system is being used at several locations at DOE for management of personnel security files, security policy documentation, handling classified documents in the Office of Safeguards and Security Information Management Center, and documentation management in the Office of Declassification. The system also has been installed throughout the U.S. at over 50 other locations, including many at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque. Some other uses include timecard imaging for payroll applications and Contract Staff Augmentation.