A group of 28 IT, defense and integration companies formed a new consortium to develop technology standards and guidelines that will aid collaboration among military, intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies.
Members of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, launched Tuesday in Washington, said they want to improve the interoperability of their products so that previously disparate systems can share information. Companies such as Boeing, Cisco Systems, EMC, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Raytheon, SAIC and Sun Microsystems are paying as much as $150,000 per year to participate in the consortium.
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