CURRENT AND PROPOSED ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Virginia Information Technology Agency: Initiated by Governor Warner and the State Information Technology Officer, a new IT strategic Plan was developed to place all IT (or at least most all) positions under the new state agency. The VA Department of Information Technology and the VA. Department of Technology Planning was eliminated effective July 1, 2003 and a new Virginia Information Technology Agency was created to cover most all IT functions for all state agencies. IT Operations Sections of all state agencies was merged into the new VITA on January 2005. The new agency was responsible for all IT procurements and for all IT operations. One of the few exceptions was programs/projects that apply only to a single agency remained with that agency. For instance, The CADD Support IT positions remained with VDOT. The goal is to save money by eliminating duplication of programming efforts, procurement, Server support, and networking. Initiated by Governor Warner and carried threw by Governor Tim Kaine and the State Information Technology Officer, a new IT strategic Plan was developed to outsource all IT (or at least most all) positions. Northrop Grumman won the contract and the switch over took place on July 1, 2006.

INFRASTRUCTURE (DESKTOP, NETWORKING, SERVER/STORAGE/ETC.)

In the area of Cadd VDOT recently purchase 2 IBM 3600 series servers with 4 Zeon processors to replace the aging Compaq server. This was done to accommodate the needs of this area for speed and reliability. Here is a diagram of the layout of the servers and applications.

VDOT is currently uses Windows Server 2000 and 2003 and the workstations use Windows XP. VDOT will be evaluating Windows Vista, but has no immediate plans to implement the OS.

Northrop Grumman along with Vita is in process of Building New Server Facilities in two areas of the state to consolidate all the servers for the state to these new locations.

NEW SYSTEMS (JUST COMPLETED, IN PROGRESS, OR PREPARING TO START)

MicroStation - VDOT has completed the migration to V8 (2004 Edition) with the exception of files that have remained in VDOT old design software IGrds. We have set date of August 2007 that when meet we will remove the Old Version of Microstation. All workstations used in the development of Plans, Specifications, and Estimates have successfully transitioned to V8. MicroStation (08.05.02.55), Descartes (08.05.02.35) have all proved to be stable platforms. VDOT is now moving towards SELECTserver XM and further evaluations of the XM product line.

GEOPAK - VDOT is currently using GEOPAK 2004 Edition (08.05.02.51). We are presently evaluating GEOPAK 8.8 (08.08.02.73) and will be migrating to GEOPAK (08.08.02.73) in the next month. VDOT uses the Road, Drainage, Site, Bridge, and Survey modules. We are presently evaluating GEOPAK XM as products become available.

Carlson Data Collection Software - VDOT has recently switched from our in house written survey package to Carlson software and data collectors to collect survey data. We also are using Carlson Software for some construction staking. VDOT is currently working on procedures to accomplish all desired tasks in the area of stake out.

CAiCE - VDOT is currently phasing out CAiCE Visual Transportation.

IGrds - VDOT is currently phasing out IGrds.

Falcon - VDOT is currently using Falcon DMS (Document Management System, Falcon SVP (Web Version – Search, View, Print), and Falcon Enterprise (Web Version – Post, Check out/in). Falcon DMS is used to manage all cadd drawings and plan file room documents. Falcon SVP is used to enable Plan File Room to be available through the web for searching and printing. Falcon Enterprise is used to allow electronic plans to be available to the contractors through the web and to allow the consultants to post, check out, and in files threw the firewall. VDOT has also set up other environments for purpose of store all project correspondents and other project related documents.

Aperture Card Scanning - VDOT is currently in the process of scanning aperture cards and adding them to our plan file library (approximately seven million). VDOT has least two Wicks and Wilson CS750 scanners and have contracted TSAdvet to create a process that will automatically store theses files in Falcon also at the same time it will populate fields in the falcon database with import information about the files.

INFORMATION WANTED

VDOT is interested in what other transportation agencies are implementing or considering in the areas of digital signatures and design to construction.