Expersoft Corp, in association with a consortium of other companies, has won a $24m contract to develop a distributed object management system for commercial and defence applications. The award was made by the US Advanced Research Project Agency, the federal government agency that promotes the exploitation of new technologies across the US. Expersoft’s XShell Object Request Broker product will be used to provide an infrastructure for integrating tools and application components across Common Object Request Broker Architecture-based distributed environments. The company will also provide support for Microsoft Corp’s Object Linking & Embedding specification. The consortium, whose members also include Andersen Consulting, Raytheon Co, CoGenTex, Rome Laboratory and the University of Maryland, will first build two prototype applications, a battle management system and a factory work centre management system, to demonstrate the technology.
