FEASIBILITY OF SHIPBOARD ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING.
Abstract
The effects of the current technological revolution, the efforts of the Department of Defense to integrate the stocks of material of the four services, the current operations of the fleet under accentuated readiness conditions, the new techniques of management science and the increased workload of the shipboard Supply Department have made it essential that all departments of the ship and particularly the Supply Department be provided with the necessary tools to cope with the increased workload problem. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether shipboard Electronic Data Processing (EDP) is feasible. The answer is developed by considering how EDP is already being used in industry and the military, how EDP could be used aboard ship, if the computer and the associated equipment could be accommodated aboard ship, and the characteristics of the computer that would be required for shipboard use. The study concludes that shipboard EDP is feasible, but to obtain optimum results, data processing afloat must be redesigned on a Navy-wide basis. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0480917
Entities
People
- Richard Stuart Baird
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School