Defense Agencies Around the World Collaborate with Suppliers on OASIS Data Exchange Sets for Product Life Cycle Support.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004 Boeing, LSC LSC Learning and Skills Council LSC Legal Services Commission (UK) LSC Legal Services Corporation LSC Lyndon State College (Lyndonville, VT) LSC Learning Skills Council LSC Life Safety Code , Norwegian Defence Norwegian Defence can refer to two things:
(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. STEP Protocol Standards consortium, OASIS, has brought together government defense agencies, major manufacturers, and software vendors to collaborate on the deployment of an international data exchange standard to support complex engineered assets throughout their entire life cycle. The new OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) Technical Committee will develop Data Exchange Sets (DEXs) that provide a mechanism to maintain information on complex systems such as ships, aircraft, engines, or oil platforms, supporting product changes from concept to disposal. OASIS PLCS Technical Committee members will base their work on the International Organisation Noun 1. international organisation - an international alliance involving many different countries global organization, international organization, world organisation, world organization for Standardization (ISO) 10303 Standard for Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) Application Protocol 239 PLCS. OASIS will build on the ISO STEP XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. binding to generate standardized XML schemas for PLCS DEXs. Defense agencies across Europe and North America are actively participating in the OASIS development. Air Chief Marshal air chief marshal Noun a very senior officer in an air force Sir Malcolm Pledger PLEDGER. The same as pawner. (q.v.) , UK Chief of Defence Logistics The Chief of Defence Logistics was a senior post in the British armed forces. As of 1 April 2007 the Defence Logistics Organisation was merged with the Defence Procurement Agency to form a new organisation called Defence Equipment & Support. emphasized that the initiative had his personal support. Commodore Morten Jacobsen, Norwegian Head of Defence Investment, expressed his belief that PLCS will be the leading standard for product data and Life Cycle Management. "PLCS will enable UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to contract against an open, neutral and commercial ISO support data standard. We see PLCS as a keystone in the development of the MOD support transformation policy driving down equipment support costs," said Major-General Malcolm Wood, Director General Defence Supply Chain, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD). Jerry Smith of the US Defense Information Systems Agency, co-chair of the OASIS PLCS Technical Committee explained, "One of the biggest challenges for owners and maintainers of complex, high value assets is keeping all of the information that describes the product and its associated support environment aligned with the actual product configuration as it changes throughout its operating life. The OASIS PLCS work answers the growing need for open standards that facilitate the next generation of integrated customer support solutions." "The exciting thing about advancing this work within OASIS is the participation we have from customers and users as well as vendors," added Howard Mason of BAE Systems, co-chair of the OASIS PLCS Technical Committee. "This shared approach to a shared problem is fundamental to the common solutions that are needed to transform the logistics chain across both commercial and military domains." OASIS PLCS Technical Committee members include The Boeing Company, LSC Group, Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation, Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, UK Ministry of Defence, US Defense Information Systems Agency, and others. To ensure the entire community is represented in the OASIS development, liaisons have been established with ISO's TC 184/SC4 on Industrial Data, the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA AECMA European Association of Aerospace Industries AECMA Association Europeene des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial ), POSC POSC Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation POSC Payroll Online Service Center (state of Maryland) POSC Personnel Occupational Specialty Code Caesar, and Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (G-EIA). Participation remains open to all organizations and individuals, and OASIS hosts a mail list for public comment. About OASIS OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org Additional information: OASIS PLCS Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs |
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