Wed, Jul 08, 2009
Development Of Open Standards Will Speed Deployment,
Expansion
The FAA and the
Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) have entered
into an agreement to advance the Enterprise Architecture of
NextGen, FAA's national airspace (NAS) transformation program.
NCOIC's FAA contract has a potential value of approximately ten
million dollars and spans five years.
The NCOIC will analyze and evaluate NextGen's enterprise
architecture views, products, plans, net-centric patterns and
operational concepts. Working collaboratively, its members will
develop "voice of industry" recommendations about applying
net-centric standards to the NextGen procurement, as a way to
achieve interoperability in the NAS and, potentially, the skies
beyond U.S. borders.
"We anticipate that the standards recommendations, best
practices and net-centric pattern development derived from our
collaboration will strengthen NextGen's requirements," said Terry
Morgan, NCOIC executive chairman. "Our recommendations will be
founded on the thoughts of multi-national, multi-industry leaders
in net-centricity."
Industry's review of a
major acquisition's enterprise architecture - prior to developing
proposal requirements - is a pioneering effort conceived by the
FAA. Its agreement with NCOIC supports a forum for peer review,
through which industry can provide its expertise to FAA throughout
NextGen's lifecycle, from research through disposition; FAA will
remain the final authority on enterprise architecture
decisions.
The significance of implementing a NextGen
enterprise architecture based on open standards - and designed to
enable network-centric operations - includes the following:
delivering vital information to those who operate the NAS; speeding
system development and reducing procurement cost through re-use of
software, patterns and best practices; effectively bringing legacy
systems into an interoperable enterprise; and supporting the
seamless integration of rapidly emerging commercial technology into
NextGen. The resulting benefit could be a technologically
"evergreen" system that enhances controllers' ability to manage
traffic, increases passenger safety, reduces airport flight delays,
and advances the airlines' drive to achieve greener operations.
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