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Box 532

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 June 4

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 1
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes status reports on technical development issues, including spacecraft and components, TWT production; summary of Requests for Engineering Action [REAs] submitted by OSFT program.

Dates: 1979 June 4

Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 June 18

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 2
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes legal and regulatory issues summary; customer status report and list of current and potential customers; evaluation report on TDMA modems, financial comparisons and recommendations for acquisition of modems from Fujitsu, Ltd.

Dates: 1979 June 18

Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 July 9

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 3
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes evaluation of pre-operational program, with summary of network performance and problems, costs to date and recommendations for program; service availability and transmission quality report; considerations for international marketing; report on feasibility of shared service offering.

Dates: 1979 July 9

Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 July 24

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 4
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes Hughes Aircraft Company presentation to SBS on spacecraft and RF terminals program, with specifications, pictures of engineering models and diagrams of satellite equipment and modules, status report and schedules for delivery; SBS program status summary with technical and delivery problem reports and proposed solutions.

Dates: 1979 July 24

Executive Meeting, 1979 August 15

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 5
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes reports on customer order status; 1980 planning assumptions, with services required to fulfill customer agreements and corresponding scheduling proposals; cost estimates for IBM SCC; background information related to proposals to lease transponder service from Western Union in order to restore service to IBM, due to existing transponder leasing from RCA having been pre-empted; SBS organizational charts.

Dates: 1979 August 15

Executive Meeting, 1979 September 17

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 6
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes LFES business case study; summary of agreements with Bell Canada International for provision of interconnection administrative and technical services; executive summaries of various proposed technical services agreements.

Dates: 1979 September 17

Executive Meeting, 1979 October 11

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 7
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes marketing reports; update on TWT technical problems; executive summaries of proposed agreements and activities, including IBM maintenance of SMF software and for the transition of pre-operational program resources and personnel to OSFT upon IBM's cancellation of pre-operational service.

Dates: 1979 October 11

Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1979 October 23

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 8
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Presentations of 1980 strategic and operating plans, including competitive overview, market forecasts and opportunities for SBS; organization charts, goals and schedules for SBS Engineering, Operations and Maintenance; 1980 financial plan.

Dates: 1979 October 23

Partners Meeting, 1979 November 14

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 9
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes approvals for 1980 strategic/operating plan with analysis of risks; competitive overview for SBS services and forecasts for competitive responses by satellite carriers and OCCs.

Dates: 1979 November 14

Executive Meeting, 1979 December 10

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 10
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes summary of order activities and changes; report on proposed U.S. Department of Energy national computer network; requirements for expansion of headquarters facilities; proposal to establish an Application Implementation Service [AIS] to provide project management to SBS customers implementing teleconferencing; proposal to design and install a Teleconferencing Center to demonstrate and test SBS teleconferencing services.

Dates: 1979 December 10

Special Meeting- Executive Committee, 1980 January 10

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 11
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes executive summary of agreement with IBM, with related memoranda and financial details, for purchase of SCC units, spares and features by SBS; review of TWT production history, production schedule and recommendations for acquisition; minutes of executive session of the Executive Committee.

Dates: 1980 January 10

Executive Meeting, 1980 January 22

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 12
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes 1979 operational highlights and financial summary; review of U.S. Department of Energy RFP; presentation and review of compensation plan; Draft Report on the Large Network Problem summarizing results of SBS/COMSAT study into solutions available to accommodate customers such as IBM, requiring two or more transponders to service their networks, which requirement was not supported by present SBS systems.

Dates: 1980 January 22

Executive Meeting, 1980 February 21

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 13
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes review of active accounts and presentation on federal government marketing; action plan for international interconnection; engineering status reports, with correspondence concerning production of TWTs by Hughes; SBS Annual Report for 1979.

Dates: 1980 February 21

Partners Meeting, 1980 March 5

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 14
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes presentation on migration of customers from CCSA to SBS network; marketing review with sales and installation schedules, customer and prospect lists; competitive analysis with other satellite companies and common carriers.

Dates: 1980 March 5

Executive Meeting, 1980 April 17

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 15
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes status report on quarterly plan; reports on system testing; customer network installation schedules; discussion of launch services agreement with NASA; discussion of request for a letter of credit from Chase Manhattan Bank for payments related to acquisition of spacecraft.

Dates: 1980 April 17

Executive Meeting, 1980 May 13

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 16
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes agenda and invitee list for launch of SBS satellite; business plan for voice exchange services; review of Southern Pacific Communication Company's application to the FCC for authorization to construct a domestic satellite system; formation of a Data Strategy Task Force to establish SBS strategy in this area.

Dates: 1980 May 13

Partners Meeting, 1980 June 9

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 17
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes discussion of lease program for exchange service facilities locations; Exchange Service business plan and product description; discussion of local data distribution demonstration program, to establish technical feasibility of high-bandwidth local data transmission using CATV and microwave radio.

Dates: 1980 June 9

Executive Meeting, 1980 July 25

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 18
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes report on functional and legal constraints on SBS joint marketing of Applications Implementation Service with IBM; operations and engineering reports on various service, schedule and quality control issues; headcount and personnel reports and reviews; discussion on design and procurement of Data Aggregator device to provide options for multiple transponder use by customer networks and encryption/decryption capacity.

Dates: 1980 July 25

Executive Meeting, 1980 August 21

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 19
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes reports from departments and functional units; review of system testing; schedule and responsibilities for launch and deployment of satellite; financing requirements, summary of financial impacts to plan; presentation on SBS business scope, business focus and list of service offerings no longer under consideration; proposal for development of switched service for digital applications; presentation on satellite interconnected local wideband data networks using Network Systems Corporation 'Hyperchannel' equipment to provide capacity to interconnect multiple data processing systems.

Dates: 1980 August 21

Partners Meeting, 1980 September 5

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 20
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes reports from Data Strategy Task Force, outlining problems and future market requirements; 1981 planning assumptions and financing requirements.

Dates: 1980 September 5

Executive Meeting, 1980 October 16

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 21
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes review of performance to strategic plan; market and revenue forecasts for SBS accounts and proposed services; 1981 financial plan and budget; SBS employee survey results; impact of AT&T WATS rate changes; marketing report with order activity, event timetable and prospect lists.

Dates: 1980 October 16

Executive Meeting, 1980 November 20

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 22
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes business plans for Exchange Services and Teleconferencing; report on launch and deployment of SBS-1 satellite. Also includes materials for government marketing presentation from preliminary meeting minutes.

Dates: 1980 November 20

Partners Meeting, 1980 December 17

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 23
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes 1981 Strategic/Operating Plan; status reports on SBS-1 orbit performance and traffic quality.

Dates: 1980 December 17

Executive Meeting, 1981 January 15

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 24
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes project, systems and account status reports and milestones; summary of recommendations related to incorporation of IBM's 'Piccolo' storage disc to increase SCC systems storage capacity.

Dates: 1981 January 15

Executive Meeting, 1981 February 17

 File — Box: 532, Folder: 25
Accession: 2225Identifier: 2225-XIV.-A.
Scope and Contents:

Includes authorizations for technical modifications to spacecraft antenna, SCC systems and earth station sites; authorizations for development of data aggregators; system performance test reports; revenue projection for accounts and criteria for selection of prospects.

Dates: 1981 February 17