[June 20, 2006] U.S. Military Embraces New Data Tool to Combat Terrorism -- By John Persinos, Larstan Business Reports Tweet WASHINGTON --(Business Wire)-- June 20, 2006 -- The Pentagon is embarking on a revamped IT strategy of "seamless data interoperability," by implementing a bold new program called Net Centric Enterprise Services (NCES). The overarching goal of NCES is to make military capabilities leaner, more flexible and more responsive in the fight against terrorism. NCES is an initiative within the DoD that will provide all military personnel pervasive, real-time access to actionable data through a net-based services infrastructure called Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A recent webcast, produced by Larstan Business Reports, sheds new insights on this urgent topic. For free access to this webcast, go to: http://www.larstan.net/nces.htm The webcast, entitled "BEA & Partners: The Value Proposition," focuses on the synergies generated by a partnership of three innovative high-tech companies that the Pentagon is relying on to implement NCES: -- BEA Systems, a San Jose, CA-based provider of enterprise infrastructure software that enables IT systems to improve responsiveness through SOA. -- AmberPoint, an Oakland, CA-based provider of SOA management, visibility and security solutions. -- Systinet, a Burlington, MA-based provider of foundations for SOA governance and lifecycle management. Webcast participants included: -- Jeff Simpson, Principal SOA Architect. BEA Systems -- Many Tayas, Enterprise Architect for Federal Gov., Systinet -- John Emerson, Vice President of Federal Operations, AmberPoint Simpson noted that the inability of Pentagon systems to exchange data has emerged as a stumbling block in the war on terrorism. The military is struggling with a lack of interoperability among its systems that at times has been so severe it has adversely altered tactics in the field. A lack of system flexibility has been a limiting factor in how the war-fighter counters the ever changing and adapting asymmetric threat the country faces in the war on terrorism. Tayas emphasized that the NCES' capabilities will allow users of the Pentagon's Global Information Grid (GIG) to task, post, process, use, store, manage and protect information resources on demand for warriors, policy makers and support personnel. This initiative presents a vision of interoperability that will initially support the entire DoD, including conventional and nuclear war-fighters, logistics, combat support and business modernization. Emerson explained that NCES provides the core infrastructure to support information discovery; data and application interoperability; secure collaboration; assessment of service and data utilization; and the reuse of existing information technology capabilities. NCES greatly reduces the complexity of the information technology environment within DoD. All three webcast panelists concurred that NCES provides a framework for connecting disparate systems data and capabilities with a new architectural approach. This approach is commonly referred to as a Service Orientation Architecture (SOA), an infrastructure constructed on open standards for linking resources on demand and making these resources available on the network as services. Other important points raised by Simpson, Tayas and Emerson during the Larstan webcast: -- The "business drivers" in the government space that necessitate solutions from BEA and its partners. -- What the collaboration among BEA, Systinet, and AmberPoint offers to users trying to enhance IT systems; the unique attributes each party brings to the table; and how these attributes complement each other. -- How solutions from BEA and its partners address "stovepiping" within the DoD and other government end users. To listen to the entire webcast, or download free and related research, go to: http://www.larstan.net/nces.htm. For more information, contact: Eric Green, Larstan (914-244-0160; [email protected]). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]