Objective Interface Systems
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Objective Interface Systems, Inc. is a computer communications software and hardware
company. The company's headquarters are in Herndon, Virginia
, USA. OIS develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports software and hardware
products that generally fit into one or more of the following markets:
A popular OIS product is the ORBexpress CORBA
middleware
software. ORBexpress is most popular in the real-time
and embedded computer markets. OIS supports the software version ORBexpress on more than 2,200 computing platforms (combinations of the versions of CPU families, operating systems, and language compilers). OIS also has FPGA versions of ORBexpress to allow hardware blocks on an FPGA to interoperate with software.
OIS engineers invented a form of communications security called the Partitioning Communication System
or PCS. The PCS a technical architecture that protects multiple Information Flow
s from influencing each other when communicated on a single network wire. The PCS is best utilized on a separation kernel
operating system
.
OIS's communications software and hardware products are most frequently found in the enterprise, telecom/datacom, mil/aero, medical, robotics, process control and transportation industries. Objective Interface is a privately held company and has developed software products since 1989 and hardware products since 2001.
The Company is actively involved with various standards groups including:
Hardware
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company. The company's headquarters are in Herndon, Virginia
Herndon, Virginia
Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of the United States. The population was 21,655 at the 2000 census, which makes it the largest of three towns in the county.-History:...
, USA. OIS develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports software and hardware
Hardware
Hardware is a general term for equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sold in hardware stores....
products that generally fit into one or more of the following markets:
- Real-timeReal-time computingIn computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
communications middleware software and hardware - EmbeddedEmbedded systemAn embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
communications middleware software and hardware - High-performanceHigh-performance computingHigh-performance computing uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.-Overview:...
communications middleware software and hardware - High Assurance secure communicationsCommunications securityCommunications security is the discipline of preventing unauthorized interceptors from accessing telecommunications in an intelligible form, while still delivering content to the intended recipients. In the United States Department of Defense culture, it is often referred to by the abbreviation...
software and hardware
A popular OIS product is the ORBexpress CORBA
Çorba
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middleware
Middleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
software. ORBexpress is most popular in the real-time
Real-time computing
In computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
and embedded computer markets. OIS supports the software version ORBexpress on more than 2,200 computing platforms (combinations of the versions of CPU families, operating systems, and language compilers). OIS also has FPGA versions of ORBexpress to allow hardware blocks on an FPGA to interoperate with software.
OIS engineers invented a form of communications security called the Partitioning Communication System
Partitioning Communication System
Partitioning Communication System is an high-assurance computer security architecture based on an information flow separation policy. The PCS extends the four foundational security policies of a MILS separation kernel to the network:* End-to-end Information Flow* End-to-end Data Isolation*...
or PCS. The PCS a technical architecture that protects multiple Information Flow
Information flow
In discourse-based grammatical theory, information flow is any tracking of referential information by speakers. Information may be new, just introduced into the conversation; given, already active in the speakers' consciousness; or old, no longer active...
s from influencing each other when communicated on a single network wire. The PCS is best utilized on a separation kernel
Separation kernel
A separation kernel is a type of security kernel used to simulate a distributed environment. The concept was introduced by John Rushby in a 1981 paper...
operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
.
OIS's communications software and hardware products are most frequently found in the enterprise, telecom/datacom, mil/aero, medical, robotics, process control and transportation industries. Objective Interface is a privately held company and has developed software products since 1989 and hardware products since 2001.
The Company is actively involved with various standards groups including:
- Common CriteriaCommon CriteriaThe Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard for computer security certification...
- IEEE
- Network Centric Operations Industry ConsortiumNetwork Centric Operations Industry ConsortiumThe Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium is an international not-for-profit collaborative organization, chartered in the United States, whose goal is to facilitate the adoption of existing and emerging open technical standards...
- Object Management GroupObject Management GroupObject Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...
(OMG) - The Open GroupThe Open GroupThe Open Group is a vendor and technology-neutral industry consortium, currently with over three hundred member organizations. It was formed in 1996 when X/Open merged with the Open Software Foundation...
- SDR Forum http://www.sdrforum.org
Corporate Headquarters
OIS headquarters is located at 220 Spring Street, Suite 530, Herndon, VA, 20170-6201. Additional offices are located around the U.S.A. and in:- Paris, France, and
- Tokyo, Japan.
External links
- Objective interface
- Objective Interface Systems - 'Official website'
- OIS Communications Security web page