US Army Contract
Software Engineering & Development
Phacil is subcontractor to ILEX/L3 for work with the Army on Systems and Software Engineering Support (SSES)
Overview
Phacil is a subcontractor to ILEX/L-3 Communications on the Systems and Software Engineering Support (SSES) contract for the US Army, Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM). The specific focus is software engineering on the Guardrail Common Sensor program. Phacil is part of the systems engineering technical services team that supports life cycle activities associated with Mission Critical Defense Systems (MCDS) software and the software engineering technology and interoperability efforts. Phacil has been specifically tasked with the next generation Army Software architecture, or the Service Based Architecture (SBA) platform.
The SBA project requires Phacil to perform software engineering support that covers computer resource management, analysis of technical documentation, participation in technical reviews, evaluation of test plans, field exercise support, system integration and testing, and the conduct of applicability studies and analysis of common software. The specific program duties performed by Phacil include a review of standards, policies and processes to define, coordinate and maintain certification.
Phacil continues to keep the military Joint mission in focus. Each team acts separately and independently from each other, however, communication across programs and employees allows for each program to collectively gain experience, and expertise, from every system and helps stream communication between disjointed systems. This allows Phacil to better accomplish the goal of uniting information, infrastructure, and communications across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines to better accomplish the Joint Mission and act in a collective consciousness.
Technologies Supported
The Phacil personnel involved in this program are developing software and prototyping applications using Java, C/C++, Visual Development Suite, Ada, DBMS PL/SQL and a wide range of GUI based Windows/Unix development platforms within the scope of developing a Service Based Architecture.
Among Phacil’s Java and C++ developers are those that have been qualified by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) for Software.
Results
Providing direct support to the US Army CECOM Software Engineering Center (SEC) in the development of a SBA, the Phacil Team helped to modernize its Guardrail program’s legacy software, and Phacil’s Java and C++ developers quickly developed a “first cut” approach towards the implementation of the SBA. They also assisted in advancing the Man Machine Interface for the Guardrail System. Further, by developing performance and bandwidth simulation models, they have increased the understanding of critical system bottlenecks. These advances have allowed Warfighters to more quickly expedite tasks.
Further Information
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