| The FORCEnet Innovation & Research Enterprise (FIRE) system employs an enterprise-class service-oriented architecture to deliver experimentation management, analysis, and knowledge-based collaborative services to experiment teams. The scope of FIRE expanded with Trident Warrior 2005 (TW05) and a new initiative to apply FIRE technology in fleet operations to help establish baselines for practices in next-generation knowledge management and collaborative services using enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Next-generation knowledge management and collaboration have been identified as Top-10 priorities for the Navy, and there are numerous initiatives across the DoD in areas related to Net Centric Enterprise Services and the Global Information Grid that are based in SOA. TACFIRE (Tactical FIRE) evaluates new capabilities in each of these areas.
In TW05 FIRE services and TACFIRE knowledge and collaborative applications were tested for access, usability, interoperability, bandwidth requirements, and throughput. Included were a suite of collaborative tools in a service-oriented architecture that tested functionality of the tools and implications of an enterprise-class SOA in an afloat and underway environment. Interoperability among a limited set of XML components was established to enable automated data exchange, with fine-grain security from a centralized directory, and component level management via agents that enabled resources to be monitored from a grid management console. At a high level the tests confirmed that XML-based data could automatically move between enterprise resources including calendars, workspaces, task managers, and schedulers. Search was operable across the federated repositories. This confirmed that fleet deployment of COTS enterprise-level SOA is feasible.
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