Scientific and Technical Report for the Belvoir Task Order Tracking System (BTOTS)

The Belvoir Research Development and Engineering Center (BRDEC) uses several Time and Material (T&M) contracts for engineering services. Several audits have been performed to review management of these contracts and deficiencies were found. BRDEC determined that it needed an automated software system to help manage these tasks. This document is the Scientific and Technical report that describes this automated system. The scope of this effort was to design, develop, and document an easy to use and understand software application that automated cost and schedule information for four BRDEC's T&M contracts. BRTRC developed the Belvoir Task Order Tracking System (BTOTS) to meet and actually exceed the needs specified above. BTOTS runs on IBM compatible personnel computers in a stand-alone or network environment. BTOTS was developed in Clipper and uses XBASE (DBASE FOXBASE,...) database files to store the cost, schedule, and other contract data. A graphics library, DGE, was used for producing hardcopy and on-screen graphs.