GCSS-AF Team Delivers Core Enterprise Service to the United States Air Force; Systinet and Lockheed Martin Corporation Deliver Production Core Discovery Service to US Department of Defense.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Systinet, the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and lifecycle management, today announced that the Global Combat Support System - Air Force (GCSS-AF GCSS-AF Global Combat Support System - Air Force GCSS-AF Global Command Support System - Air Force ) Team, under the joint technical leadership of Industry partners Lockheed Martin Corporation and Systinet Corporation, have delivered an Initial Operating Capability (IOC) and six months of successful operation for Enterprise Service Discovery to the United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. . Systinet joined Lockheed Martin's team in December of 2004 to support the GCSS-AF Program Office and the USAF CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. to architect and deliver a rapid enterprise solution to the United States Air Force community. Within ninety days, the team architected, implemented and deployed the Department of Defense's first production Core Enterprise Service for Service Discovery. Service Discovery will provide a critical infrastructure role for enabling Web service discovery (both at design time and runtime), lifecycle management and governance for Enterprise Air Force services. Systinet Registry will provide the foundation for Service Discovery, providing the core UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. protocols for discovery and inquiry, in addition to advanced capabilities for service lifecycle management and governance. Systinet Registry also provides a way forward for future federation with the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA 1. (body) DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency. 2. (standard) DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association. ) Net-Centric Enterprise Services Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) is a Department of Defense program, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, to develop information technology infrastructure services for future systems used by the United States military. initiative (NCES), providing the ability to promote Enterprise Air Force services as Net-Centric enterprise shared services as well as providing discovery of other net-centric enterprise services to Air Force consumers. "GCSS-AF Service Discovery is one of the key components of the United States Air Force's transition to a Net-Centric architecture - and holds the promise of returning investment by an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. through promoting reusability, minimizing redundant efforts and effectively enabling Department-wide data and service sharing - which gets information to the Warfighter quicker," said Lt. Col. Joe Besselman, Program Manager for GCSS-AF. GCSS-AF also plans to extend Discovery integration with the pending NCES deployment of the DoD's pilot enterprise Discovery service in the coming weeks. Systinet Registry is a complete Business Service Registry, providing a foundation for SOA discovery, governance, and business services lifecycle management. Systinet Registry captures detailed SOA service description and usage information into a centrally managed, reliable, searchable registry. The registry provides an SOA "system-of-record" for all users, from the development community to the business user. About Systinet Systinet is the leading software provider of the foundation for SOA governance and business service lifecycle management. Founded in 2000, Systinet's award-winning, proven, and standards-based products enable IT organizations to rapidly leverage existing technology investments, provide interoperability between heterogeneous systems, and better align business processes with IT. Customers receive the benefits of a simpler, faster, standards-based way to dramatically improve IT responsiveness and technology asset reuse, while maximizing the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). for SOA. Systinet's customer base of over 150 Global 2000 clients includes Amazon.com, BMC Software, Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. , JP Morgan, Motorola, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and SAIC. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., Systinet is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with over 100 employees. www.systinet.com |
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