Adopting a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation approach for building information technology (IT) systems allows your organization to enjoy increased agility and responsiveness to your organization’s evolving information needs. An SOA emphasizes the development of coarse grained, loosely coupled functionality that is accessible through standards-based, platform independent interfaces. Discrete SOA functionality is encapsulated as services, which may be distributed across the network and accessed asynchronously through exchanging standards-based messages. This innovative architecture approach demonstrates how to utilize the power of Web Services standards such as XML and SOAP, and platform neutral technologies such as Java™, to extend application integration from the platform level to the network.

FGM has hands-on, practical experience designing and implementing SOAs that we can leverage to improve the efficiency of your IT infrastructure and applications, and enhance collaboration among disparate, heterogeneous systems, and information sources.

FGM’s experience as a leader in developing and fielding SOA-based applications can help your organization enjoy the benefits of SOAs, just as we have done for customers like the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Through the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Program, we worked closely with DISA to define the infrastructure required to create an SOA foundation suitable for Department of Defense (DoD) net-centric applications. We built and provided full life-cycle support for the DoD Metadata Registry & Clearinghouse (MDR) service. The MDR is the centerpiece of the DoD’s Data Strategy and it is a cornerstone for ensuring interoperability for SOA-based applications operating in the Global Information Grid (GIG).

On the Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) Program, FGM is helping to build command and control (C2) applications that utilize the power of the SOA approach to provide warfighters with unprecedented information sharing in support of situational awareness, force projection, and logistics support requirements. Also through the NECC Program, we are building an environment—the Federated Development and Certification Environment (FDCE)—for rapidly creating SOA-based capabilities, testing and certifying them, and receiving operational feedback to dramatically decrease the time it takes to get new capabilities into the hands of warfighters.

From achieving platform independent, enterprise-level integration and permitting applications to dynamically discover services to providing independent access to the services—regardless of location or implementation—FGM has the breadth and depth of experience required to design a tailored SOA or to reuse an existing SOA to meet your organization’s needs.

Leaders in developing and fielding
SOA-based applications.

	John W. Wilmer Vice President Integrated Defense Systems jwwilmer@fgm.com Ph.: 703.885.1000 Fax: 703.885.0130

	Case Study: NCES Supporting DoD's efforts to improve information-sharing, application reuse, and enhance interoperability between organizations.