Systems/Enterprise:
NATO C3 JOINS OMG TO ALIGN GOALS
WITH CRISIS MANAGEMENT
The Object Management Group (OMG) announces that the NATO Consultation,
Command and Control Agency (NC3A) has joined the organization as a Government
level member.
In its role at the Government level of membership, the NATO C3 Agency will
work on standards in the Crisis Management arena as well as participate on the
Consultation, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Task Force
(C4I).
"OMG is delighted to welcome NATO to OMG membership. As we move forward on
international standards for crisis management & intervention, as well as
mapping and other geodata and C4I standards, their participation will be key
to ensuring standards quality.
As acknowledged leaders in coalition military operations in both
peacekeeping
and crisis management roles, NATO brings quite a lot to the table," said
Richard Soley, Chairman and CEO, OMG.
The NC3A exists to provide unbiased scientific advice and assistance to
NATO
military and political authorities. Additionally, the Agency plays a major
role in developing, procuring and implementing cost-effective system
capabilities to support the political consultation and military command and
control functions of NATO.
The NC3A falls under the direction of the NATO Consultation, Command and
Control Organization (NC30).
"As NATO relies more and more on commercial-off-the-shelf software
products,
it is of key importance to us, to influence as much as possible the initial
specifications and standards that these products are based on.
In addition we would like to take advantage of those OMG standards and
specifications that would be of special interest and applicability to future
C4ISR systems as well to information sharing in coalition and crisis response
operations", said Dr. Gert Retzer, Director of Command and Control Systems,
NC3A.
About The NATO C3 Agency
The NATO C3 Agency (NC3A) is a customer funded, non-profit agency, located
in
Brussels, Belgium, and The Hague, Netherlands. NC3A is developing, procuring
and implementing state of the art C3 capabilities for NATO and it is providing
unbiased scientific advice and support to NATO authorities, nations, and other
customers.
The Agency has more than 500 professionals, civilian and military, from
NATO
member nations dedicated to provide to NATO high quality of deliverables and
service. Effective exploitation of technology is a critical success factor for
the Agency's mission which is based on three principles:
- The recruitment of highly qualified engineering and scientific staff
to work in an environment that allows them the opportunity to use and exploit
current technology. Such staff, together with experienced military officers,
provide the scientific and technical interface necessary to deliver quality C3
capabilities to our customer.
- The pursuit of user-oriented laboratory testbedding and field prototyping
to provide a means to involve operational users in a process of applying
technology to improve the operational capabilities of NATO.
- The use of evolutionary acquisition to quickly field new systems and
equipment that can be clearly specified, competitively procured and
implemented with little risk. The NATO C3 Agency has a wealth of continually
evolving operational, technical and scientific knowledge from involvement with
critical C3 issues with NATO for 50 years.
The Agency's expertise, or core competencies, are organized into functional
areas and co- ordinated by integrated programme teams.
Those functional areas are:
- C3 Policy Concept & Architecture The Agency provides C3 Services to
NATO Headquarters in the domain of Communication Information System (CIS)
design and standards; CIS interoperability; databases support, frequency
management. Interoperability framework and integration plan.
- Operations Research and Functional Services Scientific advice and
analytical support for defence planning, operational analysis of ongoing
operations, simulation and modelling as well as for training and
exercises.
- Communication and Information Systems Scientific and technical support in
the areas of fixed and mobile communication and transmission systems,
information security, electronic warfare and information processing.
- Command and Control Systems Scientific and technical support to military
commands with emphasis on C2 system design, C2 technology; sensors;
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); and theatre-missile
defence (TMD), and C2 system interoperability.
- Acquisition Project management, cost analysis and estimates, competitive
bidding and contracting for Nato Security Investment Programme, for nations
and in support of ongoing operations.
About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and
development,
through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future
platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle
approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful
IT.
Based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover
multiple
operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking
infrastructures, and software development environments.
OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified
Modeling
Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object
Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of
millions of deployments running today. OMG's well-established CORBAservices
and industry- specific standards are being re-issued under the MDA in many
popular middleware environments.
OMG domain (industry-specific) standards cover vertical markets including
healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen
other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA. with a U.S.
government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing
offices in Japan, the UK, and Germany.
The Object Management Group is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member
companies
write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature,
open process.
All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the
organization's website. The site also provides additional information about
OMG and its activities.
The OMG provides current information and services for distributed
enterprise computing
http://www.omg.org
http://www.corba.org
http://www.nc3a.nato.int
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