October 2007
El Segundo, CA: 21 October, 2007 – IDS has delivered a new CCAR-SMART interface to the United States Air Force which utilizes the latest Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) technologies. In developing the new interface, the Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCAR) and System Metric and Reporting Tool (SMART) teams were charged with utilizing SOA to align the interface with Department of Defense (DoD) interoperability directives. The CCaR-SMART interface utilizes Extensible Markup Language (XML) to define and organize the data to be transferred between CCaR and SMART; Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) as the transport protocol; Web Services Description Languages (WSDL) to describe and define the web service interfaces and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) x.509 certificates to authenticate communication between CCaR and SMART.
The CCaR-SMART interface transfers the Air Force Acquisition Program list from SMART to CCAR and transfers systems acquisition program requirements and budget execution data from CCAR to SMART as the authoritative data source for the Monthly Acquisition Report (MAR). The new CCaR-SMART interface not only aligns with the DoD interoperability directives, it also saves resources by eliminating duplicate data entry as the CCaR data will no longer need to be re-keyed into SMART.
In mid-2008, the authoritative CCaR data in SMART will be transferred to Defense Acquisition Management Information Retrieval (DAMIR) for use in the Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES) report presented to the DoD and the Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) presented to the Congress.
The CCaR System is an enterprise program and financial management system that delivers real-time program information to government decision makers. At the core of the CCaR System are automated reports and analysis tools which allow the program and financial managers to define program requirements, formulate program budgets, forecast program execution and track the execution of program funds.
