Net-Centric Enterprise Services
Encyclopedia
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.
There are nine core enterpise services defined in the Network Centric Operations and Warfare - Reference Model (NCOW-RM):
NCES maps these nine services to four product areas:
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
program, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency
Defense Information Systems Agency
The Defense Information Systems Agency is a United States Department of Defense agency that provides information technology and communications support to the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, the military Services, and the Combatant Commands.As part of the Base Realignment and...
, to develop information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
infrastructure services for future systems used by the United States military.
There are nine core enterpise services defined in the Network Centric Operations and Warfare - Reference Model (NCOW-RM):
- storage
- mediation
- user assist
- IA (Information Assurance)
- ESM (Enterprise Service Management)
- messaging
- discovery & delivery
- application
- collaboration
NCES maps these nine services to four product areas:
- Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Foundation
- Content Discovery & Delivery
- Enterprise Collaboration
- Defense On-Line Portal
See also
- Defense Discovery Metadata SpecificationDefense Discovery Metadata SpecificationThe Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification is a Net-Centric Enterprise Services metadata initiative. DDMS is loosely based on the Dublin Core vocabulary. DDMS defines discovery metadata elements for resources posted to community and organizational shared spaces...
- Net-centricNet-centricNet-centric: : Participating as a part of a continuously-evolving, complex community of people, devices, information and services interconnected by a communications network to achieve optimal benefit of resources and better synchronization of events and their consequences.In military connotation...
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Web ServiceWeb serviceA Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...