JAMES Overview

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JAMES Overview
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JAMES

• Lockheed Martin has developed and fielded the
  Joint Asset Management and Engineering Solutions
  (JAMES) product for the British Army. JAMES 1
  provides real time asset visibility and
  management of all LAND equipment using COTS based
  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, and
  web enabled information sharing. JAMES Service
  Commencement Date was
• 30 May 2005 and was fielded to the 7th Mechanized
  Brigade in July 2005, followed in September by a
  fielding to the 102nd Logistics Brigade, a
  forward unit based in Germany. Roll out of the
  application
• continues to a new set of units every 6
• weeks. It uses a thin client design created to
  operate on the Defence Information
  Infrastructure (DII), a secure Intranet for the
  UK MOD. JAMES provides asset visibility and
  management for users at all levels of the
  organisation structure by answeringthe following
  questions

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What is it? (including serialized components)
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What unit owns it and what unit holds it?
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What usage has occurred on it and
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What is it doing?
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What fault state is it in? Why and when will it
be fixed?
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What is planned for it (Plans)?
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What is planned for it (tasks)
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When do I need to maintain it?
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JAMES is a role based application
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It is designed with an intuitive user interface
that implements the users business processes and
thus isolates the user from the complexity of the
native COTS application. This significantly
reduces both training and skill fade as the
application mirrors the users processes, vice
forcing the user to change to that defined by the
COTS
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As an example, to raise a fault the COTS may
require a repair agency to be defined and not
allow that selection to be changed later. The UK
Army process may allow the repair agency to be
blank at creation of the fault and require it to
be updated at any time up to fault closure. The
JAMES application provides for the changing of
the repair agency as required by the Users
processes
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The user interface is icon based.
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With minimal free text entry, utilizing pre
defined selection lists and providing validation
for most user entries.
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JAMES has provided a solution to support a
flexible task based organisation in two ways
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JAMES provides a real time ability to change the
operational command structure of a unit or
creates new organisations to reflect the needed
structure thus when deploying, units can be
created, renamed, or moved in the structure and
existing squadrons and platoons placed under them
to create the new deployed structure.
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JAMES allows up to 5 additional organisations
other than the holding and custodian units to
have visibility of a piece of equipment.
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Planning is done at all levels, with the ability
for organisations to mark the plan as entered,
accepted, and agreed. The details of the plan
are available along with any requests for
additional equipment and what details implement
it and thus have been linked to it.
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Equipment tasking is done through Details by
the holding unit only which can include normal,
maintenance, and transfer tasks. Transfers
provide visibility by the gaining unit to the
equipment once allocated
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JAMES provides those documents necessary to
maintain and utilize the vehicles such as
inspection reports,
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logbooks, and equipment checkout documents.
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JAMES provides a robust search capability for
equipment,
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Modifications,
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And personnel
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Personnel and user entry allows for roles,
functions and competencies which are then used to
populate qualified personnel lists
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The users can create, update, remove, and track
equipment modifications
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Job Cards are used to assign work to maintainers
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JAMES provides both a set of pre-defined reports
and the ability to export many screens to an
EXCEL compatible format, thus allowing analysis
of the data offline.
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JAMES provides real time asset visibility and
management to all levels of the organisation.
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JAMES LAND will extend this to an asynchronous
communications environment, include external
interfaces, expand it to all services and
increase the functionality and depth of coverage
of the application.