AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

Small Disadvantaged Women-Owned Business Database
Conwal is responsible for providing Aerospace Industries of America (AIA) with a Small Disadvantaged Women-Owned Business database. AIA references this database to determine minority and women-owned firms that may have an interest in providing services to the aerospace member companies. This project includes requirements analyses, full-service design, and comprehensive system maintenance.

Initially, the project team prepared a detailed requirements analysis which entailed an examination of database fields, records, file sizes, desired outputs, membership software/hardware environments, desired report functions, and on-line interactive screen outputs needed by end-users.

Based on the requirements analysis results, Conwal selected dBase III Plus with a Clipper compiler package, providing both protected program code to avoid end user alterations and increased file accessing speed, as well as color modification of menu prompts.

Conwal maintains this database in three ways. First, Conwal provides data entry for more than 4,300 files utilizing both direct key-in and automated up-loads from magnetic media. Second, Conwal provides a call-in service to answer questions for database users as well as small disadvantaged businesses listed within the database. And finally, Conwal conducted an annual 100 percent validation of the database on a yearly basis.