DoD Gateway Information System (DGIS): The Department of Defense Microcomputer User's Gateway to the World

摘要

The explosion of microcomputers is highly visible throughout the Department of Defense (DoD). These systems are sitting on the desks of managers, office staff, scientists and researchers. Microcomputers have many uses as stand-alone systems or as part of a local area network. But another highly important element is communication. Communication is needed not only to search for information on remote databases, but also to disseminate and re-disseminate information. Communication means access to the world greatly beyond one's immediate work area. The DoD Gateway Information System (DGIS) is being developed by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) to provide communications access for DoD end-users. DGIS provides online streamlined methods for identifying, accessing, searching, processing, and analyzing data from heterogeneous information systems, giving access to comprehensive information to the wide variety of special interest areas in the DoD information community. To accomplish this task, DGIS is making use of a variety of hardware, software, and communications technologies that are blended and modified to make use of DGIS easier and the results more meaningful. DGIS puts the power of a centralized system into the hands of the microcomputer user, who in turn combines the power of the microcomputer with that of DGIS to cross the threshold into world information. Reprints. (jhd)