Lotus White Paper on COTS for Military Crisis Applications

Abstract

As businesses evolve to e-businesses, it is interesting to observe how the civilian requirements related to COTS software increasingly resemble the military crisis-mode requirements in terms of continuous operation (100% availability), vast scalability (Internet community), absolute reliability (transactional integrity), total security (numerous "enemies" with malicious intent in a 1B user wired community), flexible and manageable interoperability (alliances, mergers and acquisitions must be almost instantaneous and fully controlled). As COTS software vendors satisfy these civilian requirements, it will eventually facilitate military use. Inadequate software will naturally be supplanted in the marketplace by capable technologies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010678

Entities

People

  • Patrick Fournery
  • Uffe Sorensen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Availability
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Cryptography
  • Electronic Mail
  • Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • Interoperability
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Military Requirements
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies