Command and Control Framework (C2F) Initiative

Net-Centric Information in Context

Command and Control Framework (C2F) — a Northrop Grumman initiative to develop architectures that support net-centric operations by empowering integrators, developers, and even end-users to more easily integrate disparate net-centric systems, reducing government cost and risk, and dramatically improving dynamic interoperability among the military services, coalition forces, and homeland security resources.

The C2 Framework consists of:

An Architecture
A Set of Service Reference Implementations
An Environment

The C2F Architecture

C2F’s architecture is a non-proprietary, standards-based architecture derived from the DoD’s “Global Information Grid (GIG) Notional Architecture” and consists of three planes or views, with additional detail for the Services Plane:

Operational Plane
Services Plane

Core Enterprise Services
Data Services
Business Services
Presentation Services
Client Applications / Frameworks

Physical Plane

The architecture is aligned with DISA’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) and Joint C2 architectures, with the Net-Centric Operations Warfare (NCOW) Reference Model, and with industry standards for service oriented architectures (SOAs).

Of particular note is the primary specifi cation for the data services layer—the Context Data Source Adapter (CDSA). Originally developed by C2F and now under DISA control, the current CDSA 2.0 spec is a profi le of the commercial WS-Management Specifi cation, for exposing data resources—and Defense Discovery Metadata Specifi cation (DDMS) metadata—to the enterprise.