Objective Interface Systems

{{Infobox company

| name = Objective Interface Systems, Inc.

| logo = ObjectiveInterfaceSystems.png

| logo_size = 100px

| type = Private

| foundation = Reston, Virginia (1989)

| location = Herndon, Virginia, United States

| key_people = Bill Beckwith, CEO/CTO

| industry = Computer software
Computer hardware
Publishing
Research and development

| products = ORBexpress
Black Channel

| homepage = [http://www.ois.com/ www.ois.com]

}}

Objective Interface Systems, Inc. is a computer communications software and hardware company. The company's headquarters are in Herndon, Virginia, USA. OIS develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports software and hardware products that generally fit into one or more of the following markets:

Real-time communications middleware software and hardware

{{Cite journal

| last1 = Giddings | first1 = Victor

| author1-link = Victor Giddings

| title = Measuring Distributed and Local Priority Inversions in Real-time ORBs

| journal = Real-time Embedded Workshop

| publisher = Object Management Group

| date = 2000-07-17

| url = http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/workshops/presentations/realtime_emb_presentations/RT_Session_1_Presentations/1-5%20Giddings%20For%20Proceedings.pdf

}}

{{Cite journal

| last1 = Reinhart | first1 = Tod

| author1-link = Tod Reinhart

| last2 = Boettcher | first2 = Carolyn

| author2-link = Carolyn Boettcher

| last3 = Gandara | first3 = G. Andrew

| author3-link = G. Andrew Gandara

| last4 = Hama | first4 = Mark

| author4-link = Mark Hama

| title = Defining a Security Architecture for Real-Time Embedded Systems

| pages = 12–16

| publisher = AFRL/IFTA

| location = Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

| date = June 2004

| url = https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA465687.pdf

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604194840/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA465687&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

| url-status = live

| archive-date = June 4, 2011

}}

Embedded communications middleware software and hardware

{{Cite journal

| last1 = Robillard | first1 = Lucie M.J.

| author1-link = Lucie M.J. Robillard

| last2 = Callison | first2 = H. Rebecca

| author2-link = H. Rebecca Callison

| last3 = Goo | first3 = Marilynn B.

| author3-link = Marilynn B. Goo

| last4 = Maurer | first4 = John...

| title = DII COE for Real Time: Becoming Reality

| journal = CROSSTALK the Journal of Defense Software Engineering

| pages = 19–25

| publisher = STSC

| location = Hill AFB

| volume = 2001-10

| url = https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA486910.pdf| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604194811/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA486910&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf| url-status = live| archive-date = June 4, 2011}}

{{Cite web

| title = AIST selects OIS ORBexpress for next-gen robotics platform

| publisher = Automation.com

| date = 2008-10-27

| url = http://www.automation.com/content/aist-selects-oiss-orbexpress-middleware-for-next-gen-robotics-platform

}}

High-performance communications middleware software and hardware

{{Cite journal

| last1 = Beckwith | first1 = Bill

| author1-link =

| last2 = Vanfleet | first2 = W. M.

| author2-link = W. M. Vanfleet

| title = High-Assurance Security/Safety on HPEC Systems: an Oxymoron?

| journal = Proceedings of the Eighth Annual High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshops

| volume = 1

| location = Bedford, MA

| date = 2004-09-28

| url = https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA433019.pdf

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604194820/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433019&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

| url-status = live

| archive-date = June 4, 2011

| id = ADM00001742, HPEC-7 Volume 1

}}

Secure communications software and hardware

{{Cite journal

| author1-link = Plans and Programs Directorate

| title = AFRL Successfully Demonstrates High-Assurance Security Architecture

| publisher = AFRL/XP

| location = Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

| date = 2006-08-22

| url = https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/story/id/123034954/

}}

{{Cite journal

| last1 = Vanfleet | first1 = W. Mark

| author1-link = W. Mark Vanfleet

| last2 = Beckwith | first2 = R. William

| author2-link =

| last3 = Calloni | first3 = Ben

| author3-link = Ben Calloni

| last4 = Luke | first4 = Jahn A.

| author4-link = Jahn A. Luke

| last5 = Taylor | first5 = Carol

| author5-link = Carol Taylor

| last6 = Uchenick | first6 = Gordon

| author6-link = Gordon Uchenick

| title = MILS: Architecture for High Assurance Embedded Computing

| journal = CROSSTALK the Journal of Defense Software Engineering

| pages = 12–16

| publisher = STSC

| location = Hill AFB

| volume = 2005-08

| url = http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2005/08/0508Vanfleet_etal.pdf

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060925134046/http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2005/08/0508Vanfleet_etal.pdf

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = September 25, 2006

}}

A popular OIS product is the ORBexpress CORBA middleware software. ORBexpress is most popular in the real-time and embedded computer markets. OIS supports the software version ORBexpress on more than 6,000 computing platforms (combinations of the versions of CPU families, operating systems, and language compilers).

{{cite journal

| title=ORBexpress RT Platforms Supported for Real-time and Embedded

| journal=OIS ORBexpress RT Real-time and Embedded Webpage

| url=http://www.ois.com/Products/Platforms-Supported-for-Real-time-and-Embedded.html

}}

{{cite journal

| title=ORBexpress Enterprise Platforms Supported for Data Centers, Servers, and Workstations

| journal=OIS Enterprise Webpage

| url=http://www.ois.com/Products/Platforms-Supported.html

}}

OIS also has FPGA versions of ORBexpress to allow hardware blocks on an FPGA to interoperate with software.

{{cite journal

| title= ISR Technologies selects ORBexpress middleware for Xilinx-based JTRS SDR development kit

| website=Automation.com

| url=http://www.automation.com/content/isr-technologies-selects-orbexpress-middleware-for-xilinx-based-jtrs-sdr-development-kit

}}

OIS engineers invented a form of communications security called the Partitioning Communication System or PCS. The PCS is a technical architecture that protects multiple Information Flows from influencing each other when communicated on a single network wire. The PCS is best implemented on a software separation operating system such as SELinux or a separation kernel.

OIS's communications products are most frequently found in the enterprise,

{{cite journal

| title=Real-time Communications in On-line Financial Systems