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What is Centrix

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Effectively SIPRNET for Foreign National partners. Wire usually purple in color

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Which AFI provides information about project management?

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AFI 33-102

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What are differences between a program and a project?

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Programs are centrally funded, managed to address overarching missions needs and are often multi-year.

Projects are carefully set of activities to meet pre-defined objectives usually temporary and one-time endeavor

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What is project management as a discipline? As a process?

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As a discipline: organizing and managing resources

As a process: activities throughout the life of a project
1) Planning
2) Controlling
3) Reporting
4) Concluding

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Which AFI guides the SCX flight in developing and processing requirements?

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< $5M : AFI 33-103, Requirements Development and Processing

>= $5M : AFI 10-601, Capabilities Based Requirements Development

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Four basic functions of project management

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Planning, organizing, leading and controlling

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Project Variables

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Scope, risks, quality, resources

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PSA stands for?

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Project Support Agreement

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What‘s the first significant action after a requirement is approved?

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a site survey

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After examining and approving a requirement and the site survey, what is the next major step?

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The C&I Systems Officer (CSO) then produce the technical solution, usually using a system such as Cyberspace Infrastructure Planning System (CIPS)

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What is the goal of the Clinger-Cohen Act?

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to standardize and consolidate the acquisition, planning and management of IT

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Getting a new system up and running is only one small part. What must be done and considered to ensure the system stays operational?

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Lifecycle Managment Plan (LCMP)

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What does the C&I Systems Officer of the SCX flight do?

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Identifies needs and develops, obtains and implements technical solutions for user req'ts
Manages C&I projects
Coordinates with STEM-B

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Which organization on the base must the communications personnel work closely with as they run other parts of the base‘s critical infrastructures?

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Civil Engineering

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Who Develops, implements and enforces policies, standards, strategies and procedures to ensure AF executes efficient acquisition, integration, application and management of information and IT resources

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SAF/XC

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What form is used to request work from the Civil Engineer?

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AF Form 332

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What does AFCA (now AFNIC) do?

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Executive agent for policy, procedures, achictectures, standards and guidance to MAJCOMS for developing C&I system capabilities

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What is a STEM?

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Systems Telecommunications Engineering Manager

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You‘re deployed to an airbase in Iraq and are tasked to install a communications system to communicate with the JSTARs aircraft. Which STEM or STEMs would you work with?

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STEM-D

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STEM-B

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Base

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STEM-C

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MAJCOM

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STEM-D

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Deployed

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STEM-A

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Air Staff and SAF/XC

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STEM-E

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backup technical expertise to STEM-B

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Which program works to ensure standardization of core AF networks? Who administers the program?

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CITS. AFNIC manages CITS

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Who is the only person that can legally obligate the government?

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Contracting Officer

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What is the communications officer‘s role in the contracting process?

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technical expert

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What are some types of contracts?

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1. Fixed-Price
2. Cost-Reimbursement
3. Incentive
4. Indefinite Delivery
5. Time and Material, Labor, Letter

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Key contracts for communications support include?

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NETCENTS and AFWAY

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What is CIPS?

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Cyberspace Infrastructure Planning System

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a carefully set of activities to meet pre-defined objectives usually temporary and one-time endeavor

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Project

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centrally funded and managed to address overarching mission need

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Program

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used to determine precisely where and how C&I systems equipment is to be installed and then documented

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on-site Survey

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The site survey is used to develop the

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Technical solution

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who is responsible for producing the Technical Solution?

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C&I Systems Officer (CSO)

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what is the purpose of the Clinger-Cohen Act

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to standardize and consolidate the acquisition, planning and management of IT.

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The Life Cycle Management Plan is documented by who?

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the Program Manger

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principle logistics document for an acquisition program serving as a source document

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Integrated Logistics Support Plan (ILSP)

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preferred strategy for product support designed to optimize system readiness and reduces the demand for logisitics of a system

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Performance-based logistics

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human resource affordability of a system

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Manpower and Personnel

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selection of sources that support and maximimized management functions

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Supply

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orderly arrangement of all maintenance support including support equipment and facilities

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Maintenance

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who plans, programs and budgets for engineering, installation, operation and maintenance of MAJCOM-unique and command portion of Air Force-wide systems

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MAJCOM CSO

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Who meets the Wing's C&I needs, identifies needs and develops, obtains and implements technical solutions for user requirements

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Base level CSO

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who serves the wing commander and base-level CSO as a C&I technical advisor and is responsible for the base C&I blueprint

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STEM-B

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Who serves as the C&I systems technical advisor to the MAJCOM commander and CSO

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STEM-C

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serves as technical consultant to the CCDR at the Numbered AF level

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STEM-D

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is a technical consultant to senior leaders at the Air Staff and SAF/XC level

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STEM-A

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responsible for managing the process for implementation of C4ISR projects on bases assigned to a specific MAJCOM

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STEM-E

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promotes interoperaibility by providing an interface for CCDRRs, Joint Staff, DISA, MAJCOMs

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STEM-J

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function area advisor for planning, programming and budgeting for C&I facilities or systems

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STEM-TM

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ensures standardization of all AF core networks and enables the AF to manage thousands of projects simultaneously

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CITS

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proves for a firm price...may stimpulate a ceiling price, a target prices or a minimum price

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Fixed-cost contract

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used when the cost of performance cannot be estimated with sufficient reasonableness to permit use of a fixed-price contract

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Cost-reimbursement contract

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used when a firm fixed-priced is not appropriate and the required services can be acquired at lower costs and, in certain circumstances, with improved delivery or technical performance

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Incentive Contracts

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used when the delivery date is not known at the time of contracting

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Indefinite delivery contracts

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provides the capability to direct labor hours at a specified fixed hourly rate that included wages, etc..
may only be used when it is not possible to estimate the extent or duraction of work to anticipate costs with any resonable degree of confidence

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Time & Material Contracts, Labour-hour and Letter

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ID/IQ

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Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity
(e.g. NETCEnTS, AFWAY)

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NETCENTS

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primary source contract for networking equipment

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AFWAY

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contract for purchasing IT

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COR/QAE

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Contracting Office Representative/Quality Assurance Evaluator
Reviews contractor req'ts, maintains register for contractors, and keeps running tally of hours worked

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MILCON projects are construction projects over ____ and repair projects over ____

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$500K, $3M

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what is the name of the form..Request for Purchase used to purchase items through the contracting office

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AF Form 9

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Final form which proceeds the Certificate to Operate

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AF Form 1261

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CSIR

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C&I Systems Installation Records.

creates and maintains a master CSIR file for on-base and geo separated C&I system
focal point for new drawings
provides CSIR mngmt guidance and assistance to host base and tenant orgs

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Four phases of federal budget process

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Formulation, enactment, execution and audit

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two tools of the Formulation phase of the budge

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1. PPBE
2. Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)

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PPBE stands for

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Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution

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what is the goal of PPBE

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achieve the defense objectives established by POTUS snd SECDEF over a 2-yr period

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matches a need with resources and looks to fulfill the need with a tangible solution

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Programming

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produces a fiscal forecase, planning guidance and program guidance

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planning phase

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develops AF input for the PResident's budget

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Budgeting

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assesses whether the need is actually going to be met

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Execution

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a three dimensional database, which tracks the changes that takes place during PPBE

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FYDP (Future Years Defense Program)

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3 parts of FYDP

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Resource converter, major force programmings and appopriations categories

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3400 series appropriations

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Operations and maintenance

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3080 Appropriations code

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Procurement

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3500 Appropriations code

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Military Personnel

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3600 Appropriations code

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RDT&E

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3300 Appropriations code

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Military construction

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legislation phase and consists of five main tytpe fo congressional legislation

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Phase II-Enactment

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budgeting phase and the purpose is to manage budgets and control spending

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Phase III-Execution

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accoutability phase

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Phase IV-Audit

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The Financial Management Board (FMB) does..

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1. reviews reqts
2. reviews and approves the distribution of qtrly and annual operating budget targets
3. id's programs that bust be deffered, reducted eliminatted or moved
4. Evaluates and prioritizes unfunded req'ts

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key player in sqd resource management

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SQD Resource Advisor (RA)

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who gathers the BER inputs from the flights in the sqd

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the RA

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lists the top 10 unfunded reqts

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Budget Execution Report (BER)

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DTS

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Defense Travel System

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CRIS

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Commanders Resource Integration System
data warehouse containing legacy system data for global, regoinal and base-level reporting functions

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ES-S

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Enterprise Solution-supply
Provides enterprise-wide asset visibility and order managment of AF-own supply items through the AF Portal. The includes real-time visibility of depot an base supply inventory data