Service Oriented Architectures in the Provision of Military Capability
Duncan J. Russell, Jie Xu · 2007
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is becoming established in computing as a means to integrate processing and access data across organisations. In general architecture terms, services are used to loosely couple assets in systems by describing service interfaces at a high level of abstraction. Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is an initiative from the MoD to react to the rapidly changing conflict environment in which its forces must operate by using dynamic integration of assets to provide dependable military capabilities. The NECTISE (NEC Through Innovative Systems Engineering) project is responding to this need by investigating how loosely coupled services can be used to describe the functions and quality of service for heterogeneous assets and networks. SOA mechanisms for discovery, management and integration can be used along with rich service descriptions to support continuous delivery of capability. 1.