Dr Jones is a System Architect in The Boeing Company’s Network Centric Operations (NCO) Architecture Engineering (NAE) Organization. He serves on the Boeing team participating in the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) as Vice Chairman of the NCO Interoperability Framework working group.

Boeing is a founding member of NCOIC. He developed Boeing’s NCO Reference Model for information communication systems fostered by Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems business. This model is employed on Boeing IDS programs and is flowed down Boeing’s suppliers. Use of a common model structure & technology enables communications across internal programs, enabling intercommunication between business units and aids personnel mobility across the enterprise.

He was formerly responsible for infrastructure middleware procurement for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program a major Boeing program.

Dr. Jones received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in California, Texas and Colorado.

Presentation
Service Utilization

The service concept is increasingly being used as a model for discussion of composition and use of commercial and government information systems.

This paper discusses when the use of the services concept in environments where not all information system nodes are well connected with other nodes in that System, or Federation of Systems. The System framework, or Federation of Systems framework, discussed in this paper is the NATO Network Information Infrastructure (NII) model, based Service Oriented Architecture SOA concepts. This layered model resemble some of the layering concepts used in component architecture models, and similarity to commercial SOA concepts are presented.

Use of SOA at various levels within this framework as well as use of SOA in disadvantaged environments are analysed. These discussions lead to conclusions about applying SOA principles at all levels of these models and in environments where connectivity may not be reliable or secure.

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