Use of Software COTS within C4ISR Systems: Contribution of Information Sharing to Enhanced Risk Management, the eCots Approach

Abstract

The acquisition, integration and maintenance of software COTS within military systems require extremely reliable and accurate knowledge about the products, the technologies and the actors of the software industry. Gathering and analyzing the required information is a daunting task for single organizations. eCots initiative (http://www.ecots.org) proposes to build collaboratively a semi-structured online database dedicated to the description of the evolving software COTS industry. eCots ontologies that represent the gathered data can be seamlessly extended to address specific COTS families such as military ones. The eCots.org platform can be linked to private replicates that get periodically synchronized with the public repository and that complete public data with descriptions and schemas restricted to specific groups of users. A secure Internet eCots-NATO portal could be set up using the same mechanism, helping participants to share lessons learned in building military applications and to reduce risks inherent to the use of software COTS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA469695

Entities

People

  • Jean-christophe Mielnik
  • Stephane Lauriere

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Classification
  • Identification
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Intranet
  • Law
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Standards
  • Vulnerability
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Software Engineering.