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Business/Financial

Northrop Grumman: DCGS-IC SOA Approach More Flexible, Cuts Life Cycle Costs

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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Northrop Grumman's [NOC] Distributed Common Ground System-Intelligence Community (DCGS-IC) Beta Operational Capability (BOC) has become an operational Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), providing the system greater flexibility and efficiency compared to earlier intelligence networked processing systems, the company said. Northrop Grumman developed DCGS-IC BOC in nine months as an implementation of an earlier proof-of-concept system. The DCGS-IC BOC proves that using a true SOA with commercial standards, and capitalizing on reuse, introduces new development power to the government's toolbox, the company…

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