Maritime Domain Awareness

Information sharing is a key objective not only within the Department of Defense, but within the Intelligence Community and the Federal government as well. The Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest (MDA DS COI) brings together the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Transportation (DoT) to resolve issues related to the sharing of relevant MDA information. Leveraging the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), Solers developed the Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) information sharing infrastructure which makes MDA data visible, accessible, and understandable.

Key Features:

• Operational Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Leverages DoD Core Enterprise Services: Messaging, Content Discovery, Service Discovery, Security
• Adhering to the DoD Net Centric Data Strategy, data is visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, and governable
• Publish and subscribe messaging services support both synchronous and asynchronous web service requests
• Schema and vocabulary is community defined and DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) compliant
• Winner of the 2007 Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council Leadership Award for cross federal information sharing initiative