The World Wide Warehouse: Using the World Wide Web to Support United States Air Force Needs

摘要

In support of the United States allies, the United States Air Force makes military materiel available to foreign military sales (FMS) customers. It often happens that materiel provided to a country becomes obsolete, or excess, to that country as it upgrades or changes its weapons systems. That same materiel could be useful to one or more other allied countries. However, there has been no appropriate mechanism in place to allow one country to make its surplus materiel available to other countries. This paper provides an architecture for a. system that uses the World Wide Web to provide this capability.