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Federal Aviation Administration
For decades, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has collected weather-related data and distributed it to flight centers around the globe. The WMSCR system collects, processes, stores and disseminates aviation weather products to major national airspace systems, airlines, and international and commercial users. WMSCR also collects, processes and distributes up-to-the-minute flight bulletins critical for flight scheduling, security and general operations.
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The technology infrastructure for WMSCR was not providing the long-term flexibility required for this mission-critical application. For example, the system received high volumes of traffic every hour, every day, with bursts of traffic concentrated in 15-minute periods at the top of each hour. As a result, the application not only had to support high volume and high availability, but also be sized and architected for significant spikes in traffic volume. As volumes continued to grow, extreme demands were placed on the infrastructure and the FAA needed to migrate existing and new functionality to a scalable, more robust environment.
BHMI personnel are great to work with - both professionally and personally. They really take responsibility for their deliverables and the results show.
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Due to the critical nature of this application, the FAA created an extensive set of pilot software requirements and asked a number of software service companies to implement the pilot within a limited period of time. After carefully measuring each company's level of success in meeting the pilot requirements in a timely fashion, the FAA selected BHMI.
BHMI created a geographically dispersed, multi-node system that is fully redundant. It incorporates contemporary design and development techniques, using focused business objects, N-tier architecture, and graphics-rich, web-based interfaces. This open architecture will enable FAA to maintain and enhance WMSCR for many years to come.
The FAA deemed this project a major success after BHMI delivered the software ahead of schedule, under budget and without any production failures.
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Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc.