Architectural design of a common operating environment

Author

Butler, Shawn ; Diskin, David ; Howes, Norman ; Jordan, Kathleen

Author_Institution

Defense Inf. Syst. Agency, USA

Volume

13

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

11/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

65

Abstract

The Global Command and Control System is the next generation replacement for the legacy World Wide Military Command and Control System, which has served the command and control needs of several high level US military commands for more than 20 years. The GCCS is implemented on heterogeneous Unix workstations as opposed to the WWMCCS´s mainframe implementation. The GCCS will eventually extend down to tactical levels of command and control not encompassed by the earlier system. For this and other reasons, the Defense Information Systems Agency is undertaking the architectural design of the new GCCS common operating environment. The architecture for the Global Command and Control System´s new common operating environment will comprise several modern architectural concepts currently used in complex, distributed systems. We plan to reduce the environment´s complexity by using architectural components supported by existing commercial products and standards

Keywords

command and control systems; distributed processing; microcomputer applications; military computing; operating systems (computers); GCCS; Global Command and Control System; architectural components; architectural design; commercial products; common operating environment; distributed systems; environment complexity; heterogeneous Unix workstations; high level US military commands; legacy World Wide Military Command and Control System; next generation replacement; standards; tactical levels; Application software; Buildings; Computer architecture; Degradation; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Information management; Network servers; Production; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.542295

Filename

542295