Air Force SOA Enterprise Service Bus Study Using Business Process Management Workflow Orchestration for C4I Systems Integration

Abstract

Current Air Force (AF) Command, Control, Communication, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) systems are costly to integrate because they were not initially designed to work together, and many integration efforts still provide point-to-point solutions between tightly coupled systems. The Department of Defense (DoD) is moving toward net-centricity and the AF Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Risk Reduction Study investigated industry best practices for streamlining the integration process using a service oriented architecture (SOA). The Government study team engaged with three industry vendors and their partners, evaluated ESB interoperability characteristics, explored the business process management workflow orchestration technology, and developed a proof-of-concept prototype for information exchange within the AOC.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1107130

Entities

People

  • Charles Medley
  • Dave Czulada
  • Dino Konstantopoulos
  • Howard Kong
  • Irene Chang
  • Linus Chow
  • Timothy D. Kehoe

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Interoperability
  • Monitoring
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Space Operations
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Weapon Systems
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space