integration

This paper addresses the system design and integration challenges involved in meeting the requirements for coordinated deployment of multiple re-configurable Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

The economic imperative is driving procurement and system integration innovation in the same way that wars tend to drive technology innovation. However technology has advanced sufficiently to create the foundations of a fundamentally new procurement strategy. IOA provides a fundamental shift in defense procurement strategy. It allows government agencies to build high performance, reliable systems that scale while reducing cost and increasing interoperability.

Enterprises increasingly need to develop distributed systems in an agile manner, with minimal perturbation to end users and at lower costs. This paper discusses architectural design options and principles to address integration challenges. It includes a comprehensive table for evaluating relevant technologies.

This whitepaper discusses why integrating modern systems requires a new modular, network-centric approach that relies only on standard APIs and protocols, provides stronger information-management services, and avoids historical problems of integrating complex, heterogeneous systems. The paper focuses on "real-world" systems, that is, systems that interact with the external physical world and must live within the constraints imposed by real-world physics.

Modern military operations rely on integration between many disparate systems for functions including command and control, weapons and self-defense. Developing and integrating these applications is particularly challenging because of their strict real-time performance constraints. Often, their latency and throughput requirements exceed the capabilities of traditional enterprise messaging and integration middleware.