Finding Services for an Open Architecture: A Review of Existing Applications and Programs in PEO C4I

Abstract

This report provides an overview of a study that was intended to lay the groundwork for the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (PEO C4I), toward the service-based concept of an open architecture. Building on previous work for PEO C4I that speaks to the flexibility and costeffectiveness of service-oriented architecture (SOA), the study investigated the potential services that could be used as part of an SOA. Toward this goal, this document presents a summary of recommended services and strategic recommendations for selecting those services for which significant improvements in agility and efficiency are possible. Also included are a number of recommendations selected to fundamentally improve PEO C4I?s ability to reconfigure its information technology (IT) system to support change. This research was sponsored by PEO C4I and was designed with the needs of the sponsor in mind. This document may be of interest to anyone in the Navy involved in the development of services and open architecture standards, as well as the wider U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) community currently considering the benefits of open architectures in terms of aiding the rapid acquisition of IT. Since the completion of our research, PEO C4I has published a PEO C4I Services Catalog that reflects the description, functionality, and features of C4I services. That document was not finalized at the time of this study. This research was conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute,a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA546206

Entities

People

  • Bradley Wilson
  • Isaac R. Porche Iii
  • James Dryden
  • Juan Montelibano
  • Kate Giglio
  • Kathryn Connor
  • Shawn Mckay

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • National Security
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare
  • Web Service
  • Xml

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

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