Governance of Data Initialization for Service Oriented Architecture -Based Military Simulation and Command and Control Federations

Abstract

Military simulation and command and control federations have become large, complex distributed systems that integrate with a variety of legacy and current simulations, and real command and control systems locally as well as globally. As these systems continue to become increasingly more complex so does the data that initializes them. This increased complexity has introduced a major problem in data initialization coordination which has been handled by many organizations in various ways. Service-oriented architecture solutions have been introduced to promote easier data interoperability through the use of standards-based reusable services and common infrastructure. However, current SOA-based solutions do not incorporate formal governance techniques to drive the architecture in providing reliable, consistent, and timely information exchange. This article identifies the need to establish governance for data service development oversight, presents current research and applicable solutions that address some aspects of SOA-based federation data service governance, and proposes a conceptual governance reference model for initialization of data in SOA-based simulation, and command and control federations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1108380

Entities

People

  • Jeremy T. Lanman
  • Michael D. Proctor

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation
  • University of Central Florida

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Combat Simulations
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Data
  • Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Military Training
  • Organizational Structure
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Simulations
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • Web Browsers
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

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