CLEAR METHODS COMPLETES AIR FORCE CONTRACT
FOR WEB-ENABLED INFORMATION SHARING

Connected Content Server is based on Water language

Cambridge, Mass., August 20, 2009– Clear Methods (www.clearmethods.com), a leader in advanced Web services and XML software, has completed a Phase 2 SBIR award to develop the Connected Content Server (CCS) for the US Air Force. The project, originally entitled Web-Enabled Information Sharing and Data Distribution, was 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 develops 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 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. Clear Methods had earlier completed a related Phase I SBIR award that established project feasibility and led to the 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.