The services provided by the DCN/ICN are summarized in Table A-1.
| General | Develop a common GUI that can provide the following User services and that is capable of launching local applications and remote applications to which execution has been authorized.
Incorporate selected security capability into the common GUI, and selected subservices. | ||
| Organizations | Provide and maintain an International CALS White Pages Directory of CALS and CALS related organizations, with brief mission statements, and links to technical and program points of contact. | ||
| CALS Initiatives | Provide and maintain a Directory of CALS Project Initiatives with on-line project descriptions and hyperlinks to initiative home pages.
Initial CALS Initiatives include JCALS and JEDMICS. CALS Initiative Home pages will contain a publications directory, project staff directory, upcoming events, and recent accomplishments. | ||
| Calendar of Events | Provide and maintain a calendar of CALS events noting upcoming world-wide conferences, workshops, expositions, along with contact information for programmatic or technical information. | ||
| Electronic Mail | Provide and maintain the capability to send E-Mail with file attachments to any CALS User world wide.
Provide a world-wide E-Mail directory services to find any CALS Industry or Government person given the person's name or CALS related person's E-Mail address. Provide a world wide E-Mail directory look-up to identify a person with his E-Mail address to authorized users. Provide a voice-mail box capability to those users with mail-box capable configurations. | ||
| Technologies | Provide and maintain hyperlinks to sites with electronic technology research, commercial products, and technical information (e.g., Frequently Asked Questions).
Provide access to Electronic Commerce Research Centers (ECRCs) and other Research and Development (R&D) Organizations. Provide access to Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) based research project summaries. Provide access to Digital Libraries. | ||
| Training | Provide end-user training to setup and use the DCN/ICN services. | ||
| Information Services | Provide and maintain a variety of text search tools to locate information entities anywhere on the Internet.
Provide information exchange services to exchange text and graphics files in a variety of formats. Provide and maintain E-Mail discussion groups for any CALS topic. Provide access to CALS repositories for acquisition information. | ||
| Collection of Comments | Provide and maintain the capability to collaborate on compound documents containing text and graphics by annotation, comments and collect for integration and resolution of issues. | ||
| Standards | Provide on-line full text and abstracts for all CALS and CALS related standards and specifications as well as hyperlinks to other repositories containing specifications and standards (e.g., International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Repository). | ||
| Publications | Provide directories and hyperlinks to CALS and other repositories containing standards, technical information, and reusable software. | ||
| Implementation | Provide hyperlinks to CALS infrastructure implementations for public events, points of contact, and other publicly available information about the implementation. | ||
| Specialists | Provide and maintain a registration system and searchable directory of CALS, weapon system acquisition, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, management, operations and maintenance, training, and CALS technology specialists. | ||
| Partnership Search | Provide a method for a user to discover a business's capabilities and interest to team for a specific weapon system request for proposal or development.
Provide an index and search capability of current Virtual Corporations working on a specified weapon system development program. Provide an index of current Weapon System Development Programs. | ||
| Test and Certification | Provide and maintain test and certification software for compliance testing to CALS and international standards used by CALS. | ||
| Computer Supported Collaboration | Provide video conferencing capability.
Provide Internet audio conferencing and voice mail capability. Provide document sharing capability with annotation and comments. | ||
| Dissemination Service | Provide a user-selectable information filtering service that filters information according to a user-defined profile. | ||
| Advertising Services | Provide an electronic mall for CALS industry, association, or other organization advertising of CALS products and services. | ||
| Electronic (Web) Publishing | Provide an electronic publishing service for organizations or individuals that do not have organic electronic publishing capabilities. | ||
| Internet Hardware/ Software Acquisition and Installation. | Provide a one-stop shop for the acquisition and/or installation of hardware and software to use the Internet and the ICN services. |
