OPEN ARCHITECTURE (OA) COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT DESIGN GUIDANCE (VER. 1.0) - OPEN ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM: AN ENTERPRISE APPROACH TO INTRODUCING OPEN ARCHITECTURE INTO NAVY WARFARE SYSTEMS...AND BEYOND (23 AUG 2004)

OPEN ARCHITECTURE (OA) COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT DESIGN GUIDANCE (VER. 1.0) - OPEN ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM: AN ENTERPRISE APPROACH TO INTRODUCING OPEN ARCHITECTURE INTO NAVY WARFARE SYSTEMS...AND BEYOND (23 AUG 2004)., Computing technology is a key part of the OA initiative. A unified standards-based set of computing resources that is to be used in OA warfighting systems is called the Open Architecture Computing Environment (OACE). This document, Open Architecture Computing Environment Design Guidance, provides guidance concerning OACE technologies and application design using those technologies. A companion document, Open Architecture Computing Environment Technologies and Standards, provides an enumeration of the standards and product selection criteria that apply to the OACE technology base. This document is intended to provide overall guidance for the design and implementation of warfighting-capable software that, when coupled with OACE, will meet mission requirements for Naval warfighting systems. Initial review indicates that the design guidance as written has applicability in both the warfighting system domain and the Command, Control, Communication, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) domains. Therefore, it is anticipated that parts of the guidance are extensible to selected C4I systems, the specifics of which are left to the system developers and government program offices. This document contains two major technical guidance sections. The first, Section 3.2.1, Component Design Guidance, provides guidelines useful for constructing real-time distributed warfighting application computer programs. The second, Section 3.2.2, Open Architecture Computing Environment, provides a description of the technology base to be employed in conjunction with OA warfighting systems.