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NPLACE Offers a Variety of Services and Capabilities

  
 

NPLACE, an initiative of the West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation, has a history of adherence to industry standards and best practices, including those from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The WVHTC Foundation is an active member of the Network Centric Operations Industry Council (NCOIC) and is poised for rapid response to the DoD’s and Air Force’s NCW needs.

    DII COE Evaluations
For more than four years, NPLACE has conducted evaluations of software segments from major DoD C4I systems to ensure they are COE-compliant.

•  DII COE Kernel Support
NPLACE supports COE kernel software efforts by porting the kernel to different versions of the Windows family of operating systems, reviewing kernel installation and use documentation, and conducting beta testing on new versions of the kernel.

•  DII COE Kernel Commercialization
NPLACE is working to develop a platform-independent, commericial-software-based kernel to maximize interoperability and reduce kernel development/maintenance costs.

    Common Criteria Testing
Evaluation of IA or IA-enabled products under the ISO standard Common Criteria – administered in the US by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) – is conducted by Criterian Independent Labs.

    Network Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Validation
NPLACE is on target to become one of the DoD’s validation labs for NCES.

To support this goal, NPLACE will evaluate software systems for their compatibility and utility within the Network Centric Warfare enterprise, with particular regard to the Air Force’s NCW structure known as the Command and Control Enterprise Reference Architecture (C2ERA).

    Virtual Enterprise Simulation Integration Lab (VESIL)
NPLACE houses a NCW laboratory to test new concepts and established systems in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Utilizing IBM’s WebSphere development environment, the lab develops deployable SOA systems for use in tactical Network Centric Operations.

 
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