What are the benefits of SWIM?
SWIM supports the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)-endorsed Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) goal to simplify processes and unify work across agencies and within the lines of business of the federal government. The SWIM use of SOA technology allows software applications in the NAS to interact with one another through information services that can be accessed without knowledge of another application’s underlying platform implementation. This simplifies interface requirements to existing NAS systems and ensures new systems can be built with minimum technology (hardware, software, and data definition) constraints. Thus, NAS development and implementation costs and risks for new applications will be lower. SWIM also enables the transition to net-centric NAS operations, and from tactical conflict management to strategic, trajectory-based operations. SWIM is part of the NextGen portfolio of programs and is critical to ensuring all stakeholders can communicate with each other. For e
