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About Advanced Imaging Strategies


Advanced Imaging Strategies is part of Alliant Defense Electronics Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems, headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota. Alliant Techsystems is a $1.2 billion aerospace and defense company with approximately 6,400 employees and operations in 24 states.

Alliant Defense Electronic Systems, located in Forida's Tampa Bay region, employs approximately 130 people. As part of Alliant's Defense Systems Group, Defense Electronic Systems is a leading supplier of military equipment to the U.S. Department of Defense. Since 1989, it has produced sophisticated imaging software for U.S. and local governments, the Department of Defense, utility companies, and many commercial companies.

Its 100,000-square-foot facility houses production and test areas, manufacturing and computer-aided design equipment, and a state-of-the-art document conversion and training center.


Advanced Imaging Strategies expertise evolved from development and production of systems for the U.S. Department of Defense. To support their products, they needed to publish technical documents and maintenance procedures that would be quickly useable anywhere ---from a foxhole to a flight line. Soldiers and sailors could carry only a light pack of compact disks and a laptop. Electronic document delivery and maneuverability were absolutely essential.

In response, Advanced Imaging Strategies developed two raster-based products: ANYImage, software that automatically links text and graphics, quickly followed by ANYMedia, a hypertext multimedia engine that automatically connects and retrieves information, including audio, video, photos, animation, graphics, and text.

With the advent of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) specification, Advanced Imaging Strategies adapted their automatic hyperlinking technology to support PDF documents. As PDF became an international standard, their products leapt from the defense marketplace into the commercial marketplace. Today, the Department of Defense continues to be a major customer along with many commercial companies, such as IBM, Xerox, and General Dynamics.


This partial listing of our customers indicates our products' applicability to a broad range of businesses.
Ameridata
AS/R Systems, Inc.
CDS-Network Services
City of New York, Department of Environmental Affairs
Commission Electrotechnique
Communications Products, Inc.
Defense Automated Printing Service
Docucon, Inc.
Eastman Kodak
Federal Cartridge Systems
General Dynamics
Global Environmental Solutions
Hercules
Housing and Urban Development
IBM
Information Systems Planning and Analysis
International Network Services
Intralox
Kelly/Waldron
Kodak
LESCO
Lockheed Martin Space and Range Systems
LOGTEC
Lyme Software Sales, Inc.
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
Microage
Parsons Engineering Science, Inc.
QC Micro
RGData, Inc.
Siemens Rolm Communications
Smiths Industries Aerospace
Softmart
Solutions Engineering Corp.
Solvay Pharmaceuticals
Telecommunications Information Services
TRW
United Defense Ground Systems Division
United Technologies Pratt-Whitney
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Navy
U.S. Postal Service
Xerox

U.S. Air Force C-5/C-17 Aircraft Digital Technical Order System: Used ANYMedia as the document delivery system for over 250 general maintenance manuals. The project included converting 110,000 pages of XYZVision documents and adding automatically approximately 1 million hyperlinks. All that's needed to retrieve the data is a commercial laptop computer, printer, and CD-ROM six-pack that is carried onboard the aircraft.

IPDF Initiative for the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps: Converted 23 million pages of legacy (paper and published) data to indexed (intelligent) PDF. The system uses InfoLinker for automatic hyperlinking, Library Manager for data management, and Link Manager to automatically maintain hyperlinks.

U.S. Air Force Space Command: Used ANYMedia to convert its documentation from paper, taking more than 20 feet of shelf space, to six CD-ROMs. The documents are used on remote shelter, transportable vehicle communication facilities.

U.S. Postal Service: Used ANYMedia as a maintenance manual delivery system. The project included converting 6,000 pages of repair manuals and adding automatically more than 250,000 hyperlinks. Interactive links launched their ordering application and passed part numbers from the repair manual to the parts ordering application system, dramatically improving inventory control.


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