Welcome To My Job (and other stuff in San Antonio)

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I work for a US Army contractor called ACS Government Services in San Antonio, Texas on a project called TAMMIS . We provide software development and maintenance and the customer support call-center for TAMMIS. I have worked for two other contractors in the last fourteen years from the same desk: Unisys, a multinational corporation which has a history going back to Remington typewriters and Burroughs adding machines in the 1870s, and RAM, a small government contractor out of El Paso, Texas.

As an old military communicator and techno-dude, I sometimes look in on the Defense Information Systems Agency, For a complete list of government resources you can’t beat Fedworld . For internet standards, see the Sony RFC lookup directory. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is another good place to look for technology standards.

The building in the picture is known as “the Taj Mahal.” The Taj sits at the opposite end of the entry boulevard from the Randolph Air Force Base main gate. Randolph is home to the Air Force Education and Training Command and the Air Force Personnel Center. San Antonio also hosts Lackland Air Force Base, the “gateway to the Air Force,” where everyone goes for basic training, Fort Sam Houston, home of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD), and Brooks Air Force Base, the Air Force’s medical laboratory and research facility. Recently, the Air Force closed Kelly Air Force Base and turned it over to the city of San Antonio for redevelopment as a commercial/industrial center. All that military stuff, especially Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) at Ft Sam and Wilford Hall Medical Center (WHMC) at Lackland, make San Antonio a perfect home for an old retired GI.

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