Forest Service System Directors Meeting
and Joint FS/BLM Systems Meeting

Denver, CO, May 13-15, 1997

Agenda

Note: (FS) indicates FS access only; (BLM) indicates BLM only.

Tuesday, May 13

8:00 Introduction and Meeting Objectives (Jack Arthur)

8:30 Telecom. Management Process - Post Moratorium (Jayne Handley)

9:00 Job Corp Systems Requirements (Pete LeNore)

9:30 Accessibility Technology (GSA's Center for Information Technology Accommodation and a New Media News article) (Dennis Keaton / Lynn Vancil)

10:00 Break

10:30 Application Migration Project & Year 2000 (FS) (Stephen Deep)

11:00 National Applications Development Process (Jayne Handley)

11:30 Break for Lunch and Travel to BLM State Office

1:00 BLM and FS Technology Demonstrations

Each demonstration will be structured to run no more than 30 minutes (approximately). You will have a chance to see each demonstration and discuss what you see with the presenter. Demonstrations will all be in the same room at the BLM state office so you will be able to freely move between presentations as they are completed.

BLM Demonstrations

FS Demonstrations

4:45 Wrap-up for Today (Jack Arthur)

Wednesday, May 14, Joint FS/BLM Session

8:00 Opening remarks / stage setting ( Gayle Gordon / Jack Arthur)

8:30 Comments from the Deputy Chief (Clyde Thompson)

9:00 Overview of 615 and ALMRS (Dave Little / Alan Flesh)

10:15 Break

10:30 Office automation (Glen Coffman / Mickie Marjerison)

11:30 Lunch

12:30 GIS, (FS GIS CoE (FS), BLM Geospatial) (Chris Hamilton / Dale Guenther)

1:30 Telecommunications: IP network topology (Ken Wilbert / Jayne Handley)

2:30 Break

2:45 Applications (John Gebhard / Jon Skeels / Curtis Day)

4:00 Opportunities to work together (Gayle Gordon / Jack Arthur)

5:00 Wrap up (Gayle Gordon / Jack Arthur)

5:30 BLM/FS Social hour

Thursday, May 15

8:00 IRM Plans (FS) and How We Do Business (Jack Arthur)

9:00 IBM Contract Status (Alan Flesh / Richard Salazar)

9:30 PC Integration (Grant Dekker / Mike Travis)

10:15 Break

10:30 E-Mail Cutover (FS) (Grant Dekker / Mike Travis)

11:00 Forest Service Network (Jayne Handley)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 User and System Support (FS) and Training (Tim Quinn / Mickie Marjerison)

2:00 Round 5 and 6 Systems Orders (Alan Flesh, et al)

3:00 Break

3:15 Bin Items (Jack Arthur)

4:15 Action Items and Commitments (Jack Arthur)

4:45 Wrap-up for Meeting (Jack Arthur)

Note: For more systems information see the FS "IM Warehouse" (FS) and BLM National IRM Center.

If you have specific questions or issues you would like to have discussed by the presenters of this meeting, e-mail your suggestions to Alan Flesh at aflesh/wo@fs.fed.us or Flesh_Alan/wo@fs.fed.us.