Making Command and Control Systems Stronger, One Piece at a Time

Picture a world in which no two hardware stores stock the same type of connectors. Where no two manufacturers produce parts that can interoperate because of differences in each company’s connector sizes, shapes and pin count. In such a world, scales of economy would be difficult to achieve due to the difficulty in making things fit together. Innovation in such an environment would be slow because the barriers to integration would effectively limit access to the wide pool of talent and ideas that live outside of a company’s walls. The workings of a modern factory are amazing because the parts which make it up and that go into its operation come from different places: each bringing special expertise, held together by a web of standards.