The Department of Defense (DoD) is perhaps the largest and most complex organization in the world. It manages more than twice the budget of the world’s largest corporation, employs more people than the population of a third of the world’s countries, provides medical care for as many patients as the largest health management organization, and carries 500 times the number of inventory items as the world’s largest commercial retail operation.

- DoD Enterprise Transition Plan, September 2005
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Through SOA, the DoD’s business IT solutions are being united via an infrastructure and standards-based pattern termed the Business Operating Environment (BOE). As a result, many of the projects and interrelated sub-projects that drive these mission areas are fundamentally based on the development of services through SOA and service-orientation. This site explores documents and resources related to the DoD's SOA initiatives.

- Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Architect, BMA, DoD
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