Service Oriented Architecture Applied to Provide Inter-operability between Macedonian MoD and NATO

Abstract

In this paper we present SOA (Service oriented architecture) that we are developing to enable interoperability between Macedonian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and NATO. First we give a brief overview of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an explanation of how it can be used for the Ministry of Defense purposes. MoD uses IEEE 1472 definition of an architecture description to define a standard approach to describing, presenting, and integrating a defense architecture that can be used with a service oriented approach to capability based planning. The principal objective of our work is to ensure that architecture descriptions can be compared and related across organizational boundaries, including NATO and multi-national boundaries. SOA can provide easier identifying of required capabilities, the ways (operational activities), the means (human or system services) and the conditions (under which capability is required).