Problem: The U.S. Department of Defense’s U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) needed to share its information-technology logistics data and capabilities with other DoD entities in a net-centric environment, but it did not have the required service oriented architecture (SOA).

Solution: Merlin International® delivered a complete SOA solution, including service life cycle processes, governance, policy management, registry/repository with ontology, operations, administration and management, and security services.

Results: By having a complete SOA infrastructure, USTRANSCOM is now able to share logistics data and capabilities in a net-centric environment.

Problem: The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) needed to streamline product evaluations for its international service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure.

Solution: Merlin International® conducted a structured SOA technology evaluation that looked at functionality, service-level agreement (SLA), security and ease-of-use to make a recommendation to SPAWAR regarding its SOA infrastructure.

Results: SPAWAR moved forward with confidence on a decision regarding its SOA infrastructure technologies because it had completed the required analysis.

Problem: The various resources supporting internal employees of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) amounted to a variety of stovepipe systems that were not integrated and needed get transparently shared.

Solution: Merlin International® provided a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for DISA’s internal enterprise services so they could get shared any number of ways without incurring the maintenance burden associated with unique integrations.

Results: DISA’s internal enterprise services have been integrated into stand-alone portals (the EDGE) as well as Army and Defense Knowledge Online (AKO/DKO) with no additional development required.

Problem: The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) program provides service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure and common SOA services to the at-large DoD community. Security, a common SOA service, needed to get integrated into the NCES foundation.

Solution: Merlin International® designed and integrated an appliance-based implementation of the NCES SOA security service into the NCES foundation.

Results: Now that application developers may obtain security services as a shared resource, they may focus their full attention on composing complex functionality that supports their unique missions.

Problem: The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) serves the DoD community at large with information resources and capabilities, but its own staff didn’t have a centralized source of resources on which to rely for its own purposes.

Solution: Merlin International® consolidated DISA’s many internally focused enterprise information-technology resources into an intuitive, single portal whose content is indexed for flexible retrieval.

Results: DISA employee productivity has significantly improved now that all important content is centrally posted and may be searched and/or quickly located.