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A local information system (LIS) is a form of information system built with business intelligence tools, designed primarily to support geographic reporting.They overlap with some capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS), although their primary function is the reporting of statistical data rather than the analysis of geospatial data.
NPL network packet. In 1965, Donald Davies, who was later appointed to head of the NPL Division of Computer Science, proposed a commercial national data network in the United Kingdom based on packet switching in Proposal for the Development of a National Communications Service for On-line Data Processing.
In the Philippines, a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC), sometimes with an "and/or", [1] is a state-owned enterprise that conducts both commercial and non-commercial activity. Examples of the latter would be the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), a social security system for government employees.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) was founded by Darwin Deason and Charles M. Young, both former MTech Communications executives, in 1988. [6] Deason had served as CEO at MTech and decided to launch another data processing firm after a management buyout bid of him and other executives had lost to another bid in 1988.
Unisys overcharged the U.S. government and was found guilty of failure to supply adequate equipment in 1998. [79] In 1998, Unisys Corporation agreed to pay the government $2.25 million to settle allegations that it supplied refurbished, rather than new, computer materials to several federal agencies in violation of the terms of its contract.
DDN provides storage systems for unstructured data and big data, like AI, analytics and high performance computing (HPC) environments, in enterprise, government and academia sectors. Although privately held, DDN announced that it had achieved annual revenue of $400 million and its highest profitability in 2020.
Guidehouse services state, local, and federal clients, including the U.S. departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services and State as of 2018. [ 3 ] Guidehouse was considered among the Washington, D.C., region’s largest private companies and in 2018, it was reported that the company had 16,000 employees ...
Such special purpose districts may encompass areas in multiple municipalities or counties. According to the US Census Bureau's data collected in 2012, there were 89,004 local government units in the United States. This data shows a decline from 89,476 units since the last census of local governments performed in 2007.