Alternative Data Entry Techniques for the Retired Pay Division of the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center.

Abstract

Division of the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center.Technical rept.,Feldmeyer,B. A. ;Meier,T. R. ;Sutherland,N. B. ;MTR-2571F19628-73-C-0001AF-572CESDTR-73-269(*Air force personnel, *Salaries), (*Finance, Data processing), Costs, Reduction, Optical character recognition, Microfilm, Input, Display systems, Planning, Test methods, Armed forces reservesRetired air force personnelThis report documents the analysis of alternative techniques for reducing data entry costs within the Directorate of Reserve and Retired Pay Operations of the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center (AFAFC/RP). Two applications investigated are: pay operations where typed forms would be input by optical character reader (OCR) rather than keypunch/verification, and change of address operations using a display terminal and minicomputer to replace a microfilm search and keypunch process.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0769863

Entities

People

  • B. A. Feldmeyer
  • N. B. Sutherland
  • T. R. Meier

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Character Recognition
  • Data Processing
  • Display Systems
  • Finance
  • Microfilm
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Personality
  • Recognition
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.