FALCON Pilot: Applying Open Standards for PLM Systems Interoperability

Abstract

This briefing discusses FALCON (Federated Army Lifecycle Collaborative Enterprise), a data exchange protocol that allows contractors access to Army vehicular product data from a range of engineering and logistics databases. Through FALCON, TARDEC can have access to a richer data set from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). FALCON enables a route for improved data synchronization. FALCON enables use of simple add-on services via web-services. It provides a starting point for tracking configuration of individual vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 26, 2007
Accession Number
ADA479801

Entities

People

  • Raj Iyer

Organizations

  • Tank-automotive and Armaments Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Contracts
  • Cross Domain
  • Data Integration
  • Data Sets
  • Digital Communications
  • Electronic Mail
  • End Items
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Interoperability
  • Manufacturing
  • Space Systems
  • Spare Parts
  • Standards
  • Storage
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.