Langston Briefing

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http//www.omg.org/homepages/c4i
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Why Distributed Computing?

• Distributed Hardware needs Distributed Software!
• Distributed Operations Need Distributed Support!

Source Object Management Group
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Focus on Interoperability

• There will not be consensus on hardware
  platforms
• There will not be consensus on operating
  systems
• There will not be consensus on network
  protocols
• There will not be consensus on application
  formats.

Source Object Management Group
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It Is Not Just Interoperability
Defense Domains
Intel Domains
Other Domains
Common Business Objects
Business Object Facility
CORBAfacilities
UML Modeling
Meta-Object Facility
SECURITY
CORBAservices
Interoperability IIOP, Asynch
Realtime, Embedded options
Components, Scripting
coming soon
IDL Interfaces, Mappings, ORB
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What Other Domains?

• Autonomous Decentralized Service System DSIG
• Benchmarking Platform SIG
• Business Object Domain Task Force
• Command, Control, Computing, Communications and
  Intelligence SIG
• CORBAgis DSIG
• Document Management Platform SIG
• Electronic Commerce Domain Task Force
• Finance Domain Task Force
• Healthcare (CORBAmed) Domain Task Force
• Internet Platform Special Interest Group
• Japan Special Interest Group
• Liaison Subcommittee
• Life Sciences Research DTF
• Manufacturing Domain Task Force
• ORB and Object Services Platform Task Force
• Object Reference Model Subcommittee
• Policies and Procedures Subcommittee
• Manufacturing Domain Task Force

ORB and Object Services Platform Task
Force Object Reference Model
Subcommittee Policies and Procedures
Subcommittee Realtime PSIG Security SIG Analysis
and Design Task Force Distributed Simulation
Special Interest Group Analytical Data Management
DSIG Telecommunications Domain Task Force Testing
Validation SIG Transportation DTF Utilities DTF
List Coming Soon! Satellite C2, Human Resources,
Graphics Printing, Retail, Post Office,
Broadcasting (Control Room)
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OMG Goals For Users
APPLICATION A Set of Clients and Servers
Activated and Connected at Run Time to Attack the
Problem at Hand

• Purchase Server Objects from Multiple Vendors and
  Integrate Under One or More Client Applications
• Seamlessly Integrate In-House and Purchased
  Objects
• Acquire Maintain a Single Set of Business
  Objects Accessed by the Entire Enterprise
• Each Division Accesses These Common Objects Using
  a GUI Built for its Own Needs

Source Object Management Group
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OMG C4I Goals

• Clarify C4I requirements as they pertain to the
  CORBA environment
• Ensure that OMG defined technologies support the
  fulfillment of C4I requirements
• Establish an OMG CORBA-based framework for C4I
  domain facilities
• Provide guidance and assistance to the C4I
  community on the use of OMG and related
  technologies

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Coalition Day EventKeynote Speakers

• COL Richard Skinner
• Principal Director
• C3ISR Space, US DoD
• Dr. Amjad Farooq
• Assistant Director Architecture
• Information and Communication Services, UK MOD
• Oberst Erik Hammer
• Commander
• Army Materiel Command, Norway
• Dr. Richard Soley
• Chairman and CEO
• Object Mangement Group

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Other Coalition Day Speakers

• Mr. Chris Allen and Mr. John Holmes - UK MOD
• Mr. Chris Sluman - Open-IT, Ltd
• Dr. D. Calvin Andrus - CIA
• Mr. Kevin Tyson, Credit Suisse Asset Management
• Mr. Stuart Katzke, National Information Assurance
  Partnership
• Dr. Arne-Jørgen Berre, SINTEF Telecom and
  Informatics
• Dr. David Lehman and Dr. Mark Maybury, MITRE
• Mr. George Green, SPAWAR
• MAJ Michael Milligan, AWACS PMO
• WG CDR Robert Veale, UK RAF
• Mr. Gregory Black, NIMA
• Mr. Al Issa, CNN Interactive

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Conclusions from Coalition Day

• The technology already exists to achieve
  interoperability within and among nations
  defense organizations
• The technology already exists to achieve high
  levels of reuse of both new and legacy
  capabilities
• The major obstacles are policy and semantics
• Semantic differences can be mitigated by
  technology in some cases
• Policy differences cannot be mitigated by
  technology in any case

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OMG C4I DSIG RFI

• Information on requirements, standards, products
  and work in progress regarding the C4I business
  domain
• Emphasis on Coalition Interoperability as well
  as internal interoperability
• Biggest obstacles??
• Responses due May 3, 99

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Recommended Actions

• Respond to C4I RFI to give the OMG C4I DSIG the
  Big Picture
• Become proactive in the OMG and the C4I DSIG
• Leverage the presence of 100s of vendors in a
  single venue
• Lead discussions of critical issues
• Encourage participation by integrators and tool
  makers
• Encourage the intelligent use of all
  Interoperability Technologies