A digital identity every citizen can afford

Team members: Daniel Frauman, Marc Stern

When the Belgian government decided its traditional paper identity card was no longer secure, it turned to CSC to develop an electronic identity card that could be used by every one of its 10 million citizens. The CSC team designed a smart card that included encryption and electronic authentication and could be used for everything from law enforcement to e-commerce. In addition to government use of the card, banks, retailers and healthcare organizations can rely on the card's digital signatures to make transactions more secure.

Flight School XXI Simulation Services

Team members: P.J. Penny, Charles Ridenour, Everette Roper, David Swank

FSXXI Simulation Services, a CSC-led project, enables the U.S. Army to train its helicopter pilots from initial flight to combat and give graduating pilots more experience in their aircraft than ever before. The 38 simulators are so precise that emergency situations such as a fire in the cockpit will include sounds, motion and the smell of smoke. The CSC team also provides 18 simulators for combat unit training with terrain databases that allow the units to train in an environment specifically designed to match the location where they will be operating.

Fully Converged Network

Team members: Don Harden, Neil Moodie, Larry Jones, Andy Sykes

A CSC network architecture team developed, implemented and delivered a "fully converged" network solution that combines data, voice and multimedia application delivery. The Fully Converged Network design reduces network infrastructure dedicated to just one service and uses multipurpose converged delivery architecture. CSC designed and delivered many products and services as part of the Fully Converged Network solution, including enterprise core and regional distribution WAN services, carrier-class VoIP services, contact center distribution, remote access, content delivery, network-based application management, .com Web hosting as well as other managed network services.

Creating a European music download leader

Team members: Luc Pannetrat, Gilles Le Caro, Stéphanie Tostivint, Christophe Francisci

CSC helped European retailer Fnac enter the emerging music download market with fnacmusic.com, a music download service ranked the best online music store in Europe. The retailer already had the ability to sell music downloads, but limited flexibility in catalog management and marketing capabilities. CSC helped Fnac determine the feasibility of a new virtual music platform and then built fnacmusic.com in just nine months, launching it in fall 2004 with more than 300,000 songs.

Mobile self service airline check-in

Team members: Johan Bygdén, Carl Stålhandske, Gunnar Dageryd, Carl Ullman

Business travelers in a hurry will find it easier to catch flights in Europe with a CSC-developed self-service airline application that allows them to check in with a cell phone. The system, created for Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), sends a notification text message (in one of three Scandinavian languages or English) to a customer's cell phone roughly 22 hours before the flight is set to take off. A voice-based check-in application then walks the customer through check-in, allowing the passenger to pick a seat, receive a check-in confirmation and bypass the ticket counter.

EPA Central Data Exchange Network

Team members: David Dundua, Glenn Tamkin

A CSC team helped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) create a paperless way to share environmental data with states when they developed the EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) node. CDX is the cornerstone of the Exchange Network, a joint EPA and state project that has improved the timeliness and accuracy of environmental data and increased access to the data. The team built CDX using XML Web services and a service oriented architecture, and leveraged the use of more than 80 open source software components.

A New Electronic World Transforms Aircraft Production

Team members: Sébastien Merle, Adel Ouederni, Karl Schubert, Sabine Zilberas

A team of CSC professionals helped a major aerospace company transform supplier relationships by building new processes, systems and technology for direct and indirect procurement. Benefits achieved for the client include improved performance, reduced costs, visibility across the extended enterprise and lower administrative overhead.

Able Dragon Anti-Ship Missile Concept

Team members: Anthony Bartos, Rich Robertson, Raul Rodriquez, Kevin Veach

A CSC military weapons expert crafted a novel system that is designed to defeat a broad range of contemporary anti-ship missile threats.

Automated aCCount QUery Information System (ACCQUIS)

Team members: Axel Binder, Roland Heinrichs, Stefan Knopp, Paul Thiele

A team at CSC developed a system that provides a service to law enforcement authorities, which is especially instrumental in anti-terrorist investigations. The system processes millions of secure messages a day and reduces the overall communication roundtrip periods from several weeks to a single day.

CSC's True 7x24 Operation

Team members: Mike Dyer, Andy Galat

CSC developers crafted an architecture design that has resulted in the successful deployment of a high-volume transaction processing system with true 7x24 operations and extraordinary service level obligations.

Joint Strike Fighter Data Exchange Tool

Team members: Andrew Brancuccio, Brendar Har, Ronald Reinhart, Raymond Vogel

This program, the largest U.S. Department of Defense contract ever awarded, will result in the F-35, the most technologically sophisticated military aircraft ever built. A team of CSC professionals created an innovative Web-based collaborative environment that support information sharing among program partners involved with the design and development of the fighter's propulsion system.

U.S. Army Logistics Modernization Program (LMP)

Team members: Quentin K. Fisher, Kenneth Muss, Larry Nansel, Paul Solomon

CSC created a solution for a government client that transformed their multiple, 30-year-old logistics legacy systems into a single, commercial off-the-shelf ERP supply chain solution. The system has achieved the customer's goals of making certain that the right material is in the right place, in the right quantity.

Baggage Logistics Plan
Team members: Stephane Bertier, Eric Billhouet, Chantal Carraud,
Christophe Lienhard
This CSC team helped design and implement an innovative logistics process that improved the cost and performance of a baggage handling system at a major airport in Europe. The system provides real-time activity tracking, along with decision and process support for continuous performance improvement. In addition to handling increased volumes, the new process met new security requirements that came about following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

e-Vergabe
Team members: Stefan Knopp, Wolfgang Krämer, Joachim Schäfer, Paul Thiele
A paperless representation of the public procurement process using smart-card-based digital signatures was the focus of this team's efforts. They built a communications platform for a European government agency that brings the public procurement business process to the Internet level. The process is regulatory-compliant and includes the highest-level security mechanisms.

@First™ and PATRIOT Protector™
Team member: Progress Q. Mtshali
Using a common architecture and framework, @First and PATRIOT Protector are two CSC financial services products that use sophisticated search techniques to help financial firms save money while fighting crime. Mtshali employed sophisticated data-mining predictive modeling technology to examine major data collections for possible threat indicators. @First and PATRIOT Protector are among the first true Web services products available to the financial services marketplace.

i-mode Platform
Team members: Holger Baten, Alexander Herzlinger, Andreas Kattus,
Erhard Philipp
Working for a mobile telecom carrier based in Europe, this team designed and implemented a mobile data services architecture that allowed CSC's client to serve as a content broker to its subscribers. The platform, which is based on standard Internet technology, links third-party content providers to mobile users. The platform allows content providers to easily adapt their existing Web services to offer mobile users services such as financial news and online shopping

Nanodevices for Computing and Communications Team members: Manjeri P. Anantram, Cun-Zheng Ning, Depak Srivastava, Toshishige Yamada
This team provided CSC's technical vision, innovation and leadership in computational nanosciences and technology to a U.S. government agency. Specifically, the team was involved in the modeling, design, and development of nanodevices for computing and communications. As part of their cutting-edge work, the team explored new paradigms and invented nanoscale or molecular electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Proactive Service Management (PSM)
Team members: Chuck Beckett, Craig Runnels, Robert Solis, Paul Tocci
This team was involved in the development and implementation of CSC's Proactive Service Management, an end-to-end network management solution. PSM has helped provide a U.S.-based telecom company with automated network surveillance, enabling call center agents to reconfigure telephony switches without dispatching technicians. The agents can also perform tasks such as identifying the poorest performing network elements.

• Architecture Visualization and Modeling: This team built a unique process that uses a modeling tool and a performance lab to select the most effective architecture design and set of products to implement an extremely high volume architecture solution for the world’s largest credit card processing outsourcer.
  
• Balanced Scorecard Process: This team created an innovative application of Balanced Scorecard to measure outsourcing contract performance, integrating a wide variety of disciplines, tools and techniques into the process.
  
• Discovery Data Warehouse: This team developed the vision and design, then implemented an Information Management System that integrates the entire spectrum of research data generated by a chemical company’s Crop Protection Discovery Organization to enable faster and smarter discovery of new products.
  
• Early Resolution: Early Resolution is a high-availability, high-security, CSC-hosted Internet application for the mortgage industry that enables mortgage servicers around the country to carry out calling campaigns to intercept and reduce potential credit losses.
  
• Intelligent Business Process Manager (iBPM): This team designed, built, and implemented a Web-based decision support dashboard for a global financial services company’s equities and cash businesses to manage business processes from a real-time, end-to-end perspective.