Tower Communications
designs and operates computer database and transaction systems to enable
government agencies and contractors to communicate and transact with one
another and with their constituents. We have served agencies at the federal,
state, county and city levels. For our role in improving efficiency in
government, we were presented with the Hammer Award in 1998 by Vice President
Al Gore.
We're best known for our role as the technology backbone over which
foreclosure homes are auctioned by the US Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) and in the past the Department of Veteran's Administration
(VA). Eighty thousand real estate brokers and agents place Internet bids over
our systems at all times of day and night. Our system processes the bids for
real estate with an annual sale volume of $5 billion a year.
Tower's work began in 1991 with our design of fax-broadcast and interactive
voice response (IVR) technology to disseminate foreclosure home listings for
the Southern California office of the US Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). The technology quickly spread to other HUD offices, and the
following year, we incorporated electronic bulletin boards. In 1995, with the
advent of commercial World Wide Web, we added web-based access, and created an
electronic auction system to accept Internet and telephonic bids. This system
replaced what previously was a highly manual and paper-intensive process of
opening and reviewing thousands of bids each week, freeing HUD officials to
focus on higher-level activities.
Today, in addition to electronic bidding systems, Tower currently provides
web based database management systems to assist HUD Asset Management
Contractor with their workflow process.
In the past 16 years, Tower has provided professional services to our
customers, covering areas such as System and Network Engineering, System and
Network Administration, Programming Services, Data and Database Management,
Software Design and Development, Web and E-Commerce Development. Our team’s
experience in multiple platforms, products, and architectures allows us to
design and build enterprise solutions tailored to our clients’ needs and
operating environment.