The Award for Technical Excellence

Established in 1989 by CSC's Chairman, the Award for Technical Excellence is the most prestigious recognition for technologists at CSC. Recognition extends to finalists and all nominees for the valuable contributions they have made to clients and to CSC's technical knowledge base.

The award encompasses the entire spectrum of technology services that CSC offers clients. Achievements can range from custom software development to complex integration of off-the-shelf software; from process and methodology breakthroughs to complete system architectures; from management consulting to nanotechnology and space.

The criteria for the award mirror the principles CSC applies to every client engagement:

Innovation—Use technology in creative and unique ways.

Leverage—How we can apply what we’ve learned to other domains.

Proven—Real solutions that work as they were intended.

Value—Qualitative and quantitative value for our clients.

 

Many hundreds of achievements have been nominated for the award over its history, representing the work of thousands of top-flight technology specialists. The select few projects that are chosen each year to receive the award truly are best in class.

Announcing the 2006 CSC Technical Excellence Awards Recipients

The six teams were chosen from among 64 nominations worldwide. The nominations were reviewed by 148 CSC field technologists representing every CSC Group globally. Please join in congratulating this year's recipients for their outstanding achievements. Click here for the brochure that describes the innovative achievements of each of the 2006 Award recipients, as well as overviews of finalists and a list of previous years' recipients back to 1989. Following are summaries of the 2006 CSC Award for Technical Excellence recipients:

BundOnline

Boris Neutzler, Markus Schmitt, Wolf Zimmer, Ernst-Dieter Wallrodt - Europe Central Region

The largest e-government program in Europe and among the most significant ones worldwide. BundOnline 2005 is a huge business transformation covering the entire federal administration with more than 140 federal authorities. It is based on a customer-centric service-orientation and consists of nearly 500 single projects with a total budget of 1.4 billion Euros. Besides the new and higher level of service quality, the potential cost reduction by BundOnline for the German federal administration is estimated at several hundred million Euros per year.

CTMS - Managing Transportation Beyond Bridges and Roads

Jason A Westra, Ramesh Vellanki - Consulting Group

Colorado Transportation Management System is an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) platform written in 90% open source that unifies operations, maintenance, and systems deployment under a single umbrella application for Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).

EADS Astrium European Process and Integration

Jean-Pierre Kirch, Sebastien Bouchayer, Pierre Nivelle, Lothar Weberring - Europe Western Region

Three national aerospace entities merged creating a European leader in the design and manufacture of satellite systems. Comprised of an international team of 200+ people based in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Operating within a challenging 15-month timeframe, the CSC team identified best practices among different entities of EADS Astrium, realigned existing business processes to enable collaborative work across European borders, and designed and implemented a state-of-the-art IT solution.

FraudVision - A Software Application For Automatically Detecting Counterfeit and Forged Checks

Charles Engan, Yekaterina Blinova, Babur Nugmanov, John Lee - FSG

The CSC development team created comprehensive software to predict which check items are valid and which are fraudulent using new Patent Pending processes and techniques.

Project Columbia: Achieving the Impossible

Davin Chan, Ed Hook, George Myers, Herbert Yeung - Federal Sector Information Technology and Science Solutions

The team, integrated twenty 512-processor (10k+ processors) SGI systems in less than 4 months, to give NASA the fastest operational supercomputer in the world. The largest supercomputer in production before Columbia had taken nearly 7 years to operationalize, including an installation period of nearly 4 years.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Framework for Enterprise and Solution Architecture

Gordon W Babcock, Gerald Loev, Richard A Reba (Jr) - Consulting Group

The CSC team developed and applied a SOA Framework for the US Department of Education, making it simpler for business and IT stakeholders to understand IT spending and align IT with business needs, resulting in the White House Budget Office ranking the Department's Enterprise Architecture as the 4th most effective of all federal agencies.

Click here to view video summaries describing the six 2006 award recipients.

Click here to see previous award winners.

For more information on the Award for Technical Excellence, please contact Artie Kalemeris.