Considerations for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in military environments

World militaries are transforming to Network-Enabled Capabilities (NEC), which is characterised by the ability to seamlessly share information through secure, interconnected, and interoperable networks. NEC is also concerned with agility and flexibility, and therefore requires a move from a pre-planned and pre-configured systems approach to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach as adopted by NATO and other militaries. Militaries of GCC countries should follow a similar approach to further prepare them for the unique requirements of the twenty-first century. This paper reports on some considerations for GCC militaries to achieve NEC transformations based on SOA.