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Technology

Background

The Technology Needs Survey (TNS) software program developed at HSC/XRE was originally intended to
provide a convenient vehicle by which the office’s engineers and scientists could enter and edit
environmental, safety and occupational health (ESOH) needs data into a database. The program provided
an interface that allowed the user to answer, or revise answers, to questions regarding the nature of the
ESOH technology needs of the customer. The database was originally installed on a local area network
(LAN) shared by the technical members of the HSC/XRE office.

The data in the database was used, in part, to rank the severity, impact and importance of technology needs
throughout the Air Force. HSC/XRE performed substantial analysis on the data prior to its presentation to
the ESOH TPIPT, Air Staff and others. Consequently, the database itself became a dumping ground for
temporary tables, queries and reports that were generated "on the fly" over time.

The structure of the underlying database is simple, as shown in Figure 1. The numerous queries, reports
and tables that are antidotal artifacts in the database are distractions to the underlying structure, and should
be removed.

Creation of the Tri-Service TNS Database for FY97

The source data for the FY97 Tri-Service TNS database came from four sources:

· US Navy, by way of four MS WORD documents (segmented by pillar)
· US Army, by way of a TNS database that had been exported from a ve...

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Date Submitted: 03-19-06 4:41pm
Category: Social Issues
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