Any Web Service can be accessed anywhere over any Internet or any Intranet link. For accessing Web Services one must rely on a standard web browser and on standard ways of writing code to render a Web Service executable at any of the millions of personal computing devices in DoD. Web Services offer large economic [...]

Analysis of commercial operations offers interesting insights how DoD information technologies could possibly become more efficient. Although VISA is completely different from DoD, there are nevertheless differences that can explain why VISA and DoD budgets are so far apart. As DoD will be looking for cost reductions in I.T. spending there are lessons to be [...]

When confronted with the redesign of a huge DoD system the issue of adequate scalability for the handling of transactions will always come up. When planning for the deployment of large enterprise-level programs Program Executive Officers (PEOs) are apprehensive about the scale of what is proposed. PEOs will argue that the capacity and the inflexibility [...]

The Navy is proceeding with NGEN acquisitions that divide a potentially $14.5 billion program initially into five contracts: (1) Security Operations, which may be targeted for small business; (2) Infrastructure such as LANs/WANs; (3) Enterprise Services such as supporting and migrating existing thick-client architecture to server farms; (4) Hardware purchases; and (5) Software (purchased through [...]

A Database Vault (DBV) is designed to provide a separate layer of protection around a database application. *  Its purpose is to prevent access to data especially from highly privileged users, including Data Base Administrators (DBAs), application owners, hackers and cyber attackers. A DBV introduces into the database environment the ability to define data domains, [...]