Accession Number:

ADA358287

Title:

Report of tbe Defense Science Board Task Force on Open Systems

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1998-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

123.0

Abstract:

We know from our computing, telecommunications, electronic entertainment, and local building codes the power of smart modularity. Open Plug Play architectures computers, a well-wired home, stereo systems permit us to configure, reconfigure and update hardware and software from a wide range of general purpose and specialty suppliers. Wide interchangeability permits niche products to address many diverse user communities, creating a large aggregate market and fueling massive private investment, enabling a plethora of Commercial Off The Shelf COTS products at previously unimagined low costs. In parallel, a new networking industry has sprung up, enabling broad interoperability between hosts which are not otherwise necessarily compatible. Thus our economy and culture has been revolutionized within a couple short decades and our institutions and citizens have achieved a quantum leap in operations, competitiveness, and effectiveness.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• *INTEROPERABILITY
• *MODULAR CONSTRUCTION
• ELECTRONICS
• INDUSTRIES
• MARKETING
• INVESTMENTS
• COMMUNITIES
• LOW COSTS
• COMPUTERS
• USER NEEDS
• TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• PLUGS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE