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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Tim Bray
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:17 PM
> To: Chiusano Joseph
> Cc: ; Michael Champion
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Web Services/SOA (was RE: [xml-dev]
> XML 2004 weblog items?)
>
> On Nov 22, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
> > I noticed that as well (it was especially evident to me, since my
> > session last year was on Web Services standards:) Speaking
> on the US
> > federal government space, the Department of Defense (DoD)
> is adopting
> > SOA very heavily as part of its NetCentricity initiative.
> > NetCentricity encompasses people, process, and technology,
> and SOA is
> > the technology piece. The SOA portion is known as NetCentric Core
> > Enterprise Services (NCES). On the civil side, there is not
> (yet) as
> > heavy an emphasis, but I envision the existence of shared
> services in
> > the civil space (as with the DoD space) in the
> not-too-distant future.
>
> The acronym "SOA" is not information-bearing. Which of technologies
> are actually being deployed as part of this roll-out? Is it
> a future
> plan or a present reality? -Tim
Here is a link on NCES that may help:
http://www.disa.mil/main/prodsol/cs_nces.html
[Full Disclosure: My company is one of the multiple companies working on
NCES]
Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
