US Air Force centralises control

Selected by the US Air Force Petroleum Office to employ Lims in the petroleum industry and fulfill the vision of providing worldwide laboratory information management support.

Starlims, a provider of laboratory information management systems, (Lims), has confirmed selection by the US Air Force Petroleum Office (AFPET), as a replacement for its legacy Lims system.

This announcement was made at the Starlims user group meeting held in Orlando this month (March 2005).

The US Air Force Petroleum Office provides operations and maintenance guidance; technical, scientific and engineering support to Air Force installations and the fuels community worldwide.

The Air Force has established ongoing priorities to provide continuing support to contingency and war fighting operations, create a plan of attack to resolve fuel quality issues and transform the Air Force into a service control point that is responsive to customers and strategically focused to deliver state of the art support.

This includes world wide quality support to over 200 locations using six area laboratories (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; Cape Canaveral, FL; Vandenberg AFB, CA; Mildenhall Air Base, United Kingdom; Kadena Air Base, Japan; and Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar).

"The current reshaping of the air force from a Cold War stationary deterrent force to a mobile, rapid deployment force has greatly changed the way air force entities conduct business.

"The US Air Force's current legacy Lims will not support its deployable mission requirements nor will it provide timely, worldwide customer access to critical analysis results" "The Air Force is excited to be partnering with Starlims and adapting its new version 10 software to provide a fully functional Lims system which supports a worldwide customer and laboratory structure and a deployed laboratory asset, all with centrally controlled architecture" commented Jeffrey Allen from the Air Force Petroleum Office.

Starlims Version 10 unveiled at the recent user group meeting is described as a true distributed application with an extensible design capable of supporting a virtually unlimited number of users connecting to the system via a local network or internet.

From the end-user perspective, version 10 is a web application, running inside the Internet Explorer browser and offering a user experience far more advanced than any other available web application on the market, says the company.

The most advanced software technology is employed comprising Microsoft.net platform, XML UIs, and Web Services, together with Starlims's application server.

"Starlims is proud to be employing its extensive knowledge of Lims in the petroleum sector to fulfill the US Air Force's vision of providing worldwide laboratory information management support" stated Isaac Friedman, president and CEO of Starlims.

The US Air Force Petroleum Office (Afpet) provides operations and maintenance guidance; technical, scientific and engineering support to US Air Force installations and the fuels community worldwide.

Afpet develops professional quality assurance and surveillance standards and specifications, establishes specialised capabilities in petroleum, propellants, cryogenics, chemicals and gases for all aerospace vehicles, systems and equipment for the warfighter.

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