As a joint operation among the military services (Army, Navy, Air Force), the ASBP has many components working together to collect, process, store, distribute, and transfuse blood worldwide. We also migrated five environments out of ESOC West to AWS GovCloud migrating TSG to a private contractor cloud that provides elasticity with up to 100-fold bandwidth increases without human interaction.Ĭhallenge: The Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP) provides quality blood products for service members, veterans and their families in both peace and war. By implementing the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management platform, we increased the speed and reliability of web application deployment. Impact: VMD has developed and deployed 106 major releases for the 16 CA/CST applications through the first three years of the program using SAFe methodologies and best practices. For the TSG production version, we manage a private cloud environment built on a highly virtualized architecture. We also implemented continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) for rapid incremental releases. VMD is also piloting DevOps practices on the WSS program by proactively introducing the concept to customer stakeholders. In the process, VMD trained the stakeholder community on Agile best practices and roles, as well as training government personnel to act as Product Owners. Under VMD’s contract, WSS is also serving as CA/CST’s pilot Agile program.Īpproach: VMD worked with CA/CST to transition the program from Waterfall to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in three months we now use Agile development for public-facing web applications, (TSG), and its subsystems. The W&P had trackage rights on the Newberg Branch and the portion of the Tillamook Branch between Cook and Willsburg Junction, along with trackage rights on a short portion of SP's mainline to Brooklyn Yard to facilitate interchange with SP, however in the year prior to the P&W's formation the W&P had been interchanging with SP exclusively through the Eugene Yard gateway.Challenge: The Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CA/CST) Website Support Services (WSS) program requires high availability cloud infrastructure, software development, and monitoring for more than 100,000 federal users and 15+ Web applications supporting nearly 1 billion calls annually. PNWR was created in 1995 to take over operations of the remainder of the SP's branchlines in the state consisting of the former Southern Pacific Tillamook Branch between Willsburg Junction (near Milwaukie) and Hillsboro, the Westside-Seghers Branch from Hillsboro to Seghers (near Gaston), and the remaining segment of the Newberg Branch between Cook (near Tualatin) and Springbrook (near Newberg), connecting to the existing Willamette & Pacific network to McMinnville and Corvallis. The Cascade Steel Rolling Mill in McMinnville is an important shipper as well, and propane shipments are handled to several distributors. Lumber products and paper are the predominate commodity on these branches, along with some agricultural products from various shippers. Joseph to Springbrook (north of Newberg). Joseph (near McMinnville), plus the Bailey Branch west from Monroe to a sawmill, the Dallas Branch from Gerlinger to Dallas, the Willamina Branch from Whiteson (near Amity) to Willamina, and the southern portion of the Newberg Branch from St. These branches included the Toledo Branch from Albany to Toledo and the Westside Branch from Monroe to St. This company was created to take over operations on many branchlines of the Southern Pacific, a Class I railroad. The Portland & Western's roots are in sister company Willamette and Pacific Railroad, founded in 1993. This session lets you jump straight in and drive the Willamette & Pacific SD7 #1501 in 'easy' or 'realistic' mode.įor the full experience, select 'Realistic Mode' and start driving this beautiful locomotive!
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