Computer change at the Westinghouse Defense and Space Center

Abstract

The Westinghouse-Baltimore Defense and Space Center is a military contractor of approximately 13,000 employees with sales billed in the neighborhood of one-quarter billion dollars annually. Computer operations are centralized with research, engineering, management science, and business data processing all being handled by the same facilities located in an Administrative Services Building nearby the two major Divisions of the complex but up to 60 miles away from other operations which it serves. At the present time the central computer is a UNIVAC 1108 with four connected UNIVAC 1004's, eight IBM 1050's and additional Friden Collectadata equipment which permit access to the 1108 from various remote and not so remote locations.