CLEAR
METHODS WINS AIR FORCE CONTRACT
FOR WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION SHARING
SBIR Phase I Project to be based on
Water language
Cambridge, Mass., April 6, 2005– Clear Methods
(www.clearmethods.com), a leader in advanced
Web services and XML software, has won a Phase
1 SBIR award for $100,000 from the US Air
Force. The project, entitled Web-Enabled Information
Sharing and Data Distribution, is for the
development of net-centric methods and tools
for distributing and sharing integrated time-sensitive
information products.
Both military and business analysts have been forced
to deal with an enormous amount of information
that cannot be processed with traditional,
conventional approaches requiring intensive
human interaction for analysis and distribution.
To address this problem, Clear Methods is
developing net-centric methods and tools for
rapidly handling information using the Water
computer language.
“The Water language was designed for effortlessly
processing XML-based information,” said
Michael Plusch, CEO of Clear Methods. “Water’s
built-in Web services capabilities, as well
as its ability to create rapid software prototypes
make it the ideal choice for information sharing
and data distribution projects like this.”
The purpose of Department of Defense Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) program is to harness
the innovative talents of the nation's small
technology companies for U.S. military and
economic strength. The program funds early-stage
R&D projects, which serve a DoD need and
have the potential for commercialization in
private sector and military markets. The Phase
I SBIR award is intended to establish project
feasibility and leads to a Phase II SBIR project
for full implementation.
About Clear Methods
Clear Methods provides enterprises and independent
software vendors with an advanced Web services
platform that dramatically speeds the creation
of flexible business software. The Clear Methods
Steam XML product is a pure Web services environment
that enables the use of XML throughout the
software lifecycle. Steam XML provides a compact,
uniform, standards-based commercial product
set for the open Water language.
Founded in 2001, Clear Methods is headquartered in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Customers include
Teledyne Brown Engineering, General Dynamics,
MIT, Pratt and Whitney, Northrop Grumman,
MITRE, and USAF ESC. Steam XML applications
include simplified XML Web services, system
and network modeling and simulation, and rapid
prototyping.
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