Brad Mercer is a Principal Architect with the MITRE Corporation in San Diego, California.  Mr. Mercer currently serves as a technical advisor to the Chief Engineer of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego.  In this capacity, he is the primary architect of both the future enterprise services architecture for the Navy's FORCEnet and the Navy's Tactical Edge Core Services Infrastructure.  Mr. Mercer also serves as Technical Director for SOA Transformation with the Department of the Navy CIO's Office.  Mr. Mercer earned an MS in Computer Science from the Air Force Institute of Technology and an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

Presentation

Moving from Systems to Services - How the U.S. Navy is transforming to SOA

The U.S. Navy, like the rest of the U.S. Department of Defense and the private sector is moving to a new approach for architecting, acquiring, and operating information resources.  This approach is known as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).  To accomplish this transformation requires the development of new concepts, methods, and artifacts for defining and organizing information resources based upon the concept of services.  The Navy's Space and Naval Systems Command (SPAWAR), as the Navy technical authority for SOA, in conjunction with the Program executive Officer's for C4I and Integrated Warfare Systems and the Department of the Navy's CIO, has been leading the creation of the Navy's framework for service-oriented architecting.  This presentation describes the technical underpinnings of the Navy's approach to SOA; the architecture of several Navy SOA efforts including FORCEnet, Tactical Edge Core Services (TECS), and other tactical applications of SOA; the operational benefits to be obtained from deploying SOA; and the lessons learned and challenges to be met in moving from systems-centric to service-oriented architectures.

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