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Interoperability Assessment Engine
One of the bigger challenges involved with integrating systems, capabilities, or any interface (whether physical or conceptual) is understanding interoperability issues at the interface level and formulating a cost effective plan for the reconciliation of incompatible interfaces. Originally developed for NATO, RTI has extended the capabilities of a core technology known as an interoperability assessment engine; an automated way to identify and resolve interface incompatibilities.
 All information relevant to interface interoperability is stored in a common database, and sophisticated management and assessment tools allow users to make both strategic and tactical decisions. The primary user interface component is a Java application that provides a number of tools that allow users to perform different types of automated interoperability assessments, and then drill down into the results to get more detailed information. By automating the interoperability assessment process, the tool transforms raw data into useful knowledge that allows users to make better decisions in less time.
CASE STUDY: With 19 member nations and 25 partner nations, one of NATO's biggest operational problems is its ability to communicate effectively during multi-national operations such as Kosovo. Each nation has different communications equipment that may or may not be compatible with equipment from other nations. Understanding how forces from different nations can best communicate requires detailed knowledge of what equipment different forces have, and the characteristics of that equipment (e.g. protocols, standards, interfaces, and frequencies). This is one very complex example of the type of problem that the assessment engine can solve on a global scale... with RTI's flexible interoperabiliity assessment solution integrated into your analysis systems, you can harness that power locally or globally for your systems, interfaces, and interoperability challenges.
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