NCOIC and the Cloud for Net-Centric Operations

Description

NCOIC stands for Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortium. It's a  who's who of defense and aerospace contractors, all of whom compete like hell for who is going to build the next big defense system, but at the end of the day, all of these systems (past, present and future) are supposed to work together across the global information grid (GIG) or whatever other concept of network of networks the warfighters implement. 

Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm that will be important across Industry and Government -- civilian and defense. Capability levels include provisioning infrastructure (IaaS), platform(s) (PaaS), and/or software (SaaS) as service(s) in ways that are both highly affordable (pay by the drink), flexible,  and highly scalable as a way to provision computing resources (all you can eat on demand).

The future is XaaS. You can fill in your own "X".

Systemic and ecosystem implications of cloud computing are significant. Here is a link to a collection of presentations from a Net-Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) workshop on cloud computing.  

Key points to note are that: 

(a) all the major IT players are involved: HP, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, etc., (that is, it's proven technology and a major trend), 

(b) cloud computing can be combined with software applications that organizations may already have such as transactional systems, 

(c) cloud computing can be used to power massive social applications such as on-line gaming, and 

(d) cloud computing can be combined with semantic technology based approaches to information integration, process interoperability,  concept-based search, semantic navigation over different kinds of information, intelligent user interfaces, and autononomic/autonomous decision support (e.g. expert systems).

 

Original URL

http://www.project10x.com/hub/cloud_ncoic.zip

http://www.project10x.com/hub/cloud_ncoic.zip