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Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium Counts US Federal Aviation Administration As Newest Government Member

Posted on: Monday, 30 April 2007, 09:00 CDT

WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC[TM]) announces the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has joined as a member. NCOIC is working to enable network-centric operations within and between all levels of governments and civil agencies by selecting and advocating technologies that will enhance development of network centric capabilities and enabling systems.

"It has become critical for industry and government to work in concert on developing a common global framework for network centric operations," states Lt. Gen. Harry D. Raduege, Jr., USAF (Ret) of Deloitte & Touche LLP and NCOIC executive chairman. "FAA brings an important viewpoint on global transportation and civil-military interoperability and tremendous technical talent that will be instrumental to NCOIC achieving that goal."

NCOIC is establishing the technical approaches that will support interoperability across all levels of government departments, from first responders and local authorities to regional- and national-level military services. Earlier this year, the Consortium announced its next set of network-centric operations interoperability deliverables -- its first Protocol Functional Collection (PFC) and its Mobile Emergency Communications Interoperability (MECI) report. NCOIC's approach complements major international government and industry architectural and reference model initiatives. The PFC and MECI report are available at http://www.ncoic.org/. These new products complement the Network Centric Interoperability Framework (NIF) and the Network Centric Analysis Tool (NCAT) delivered last year.

About NCOIC

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) is a not-for-profit multinational corporation committed to integrating existing and emerging open standards into a common evolving global framework, employing a common set of principles and processes, to assist with rapid global deployment of network-centric applications. Established in 2004, NCOIC consists of over 95 member organizations from among defense companies, large-scale systems integrators, information technology providers, government agencies and academia, working in concert with advisory bodies consisting of government officials, standards groups and other stakeholders. For more information, visit http://www.ncoic.org/

Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium

CONTACT: Kim Gibbons, +1-408-525-4909, kim.gibbons@ncoic.org, or GarethJones, +33 6 07 33 92 90, gareth.jones@ncoic.org, both of the Network CentricOperations Industry Consortium

Web site: http://www.ncoic.org/

Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire

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