How is the Department of Defense improving data sharing?
MYERS: The DoD is embracing Web-based services and service oriented architectures (SOAs) as a way of breaking down the traditional and ineffective information stovepipes. In the Cold War, the Soviet Union was pointing missiles us. We were pointing missiles at them. We focused on a single threat our organization, our infrastructure and our tactics were designed with this single threat in mind. Today the threat is evolving and unknown. So we need to confront this uncertainty with agile fighting forces and systems that support them. Hard-wired information stovepipes won’t work. We must enable information sharing. No matter how good the software development team, our current and future conflicts are characterized by uncertainty. It is impossible to write a requirements definition that defines our future system requirements. We don’t know where we will be fighting. We don’t know who we will be fighting. We don’t know which allied countries will need access to our systems. We cannot anticipa
