Methods and systems for exchanging data between a command and control information system and an enterprise resource planning system

1. A system for exchanging data between an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and command and control information systems (C2ISs), comprising:

a computer executing an enterprise application interface (EAI) that provides different information exchange interfaces for exchanging data between the ERP and at least a first C2IS and a second C2IS, wherein:

an information message format or data model used by the ERP is a common information data format or data model, and

an information message format or data model used by the first C2IS is different from the information message format or data model used by the ERP; and

a data warehouse for receiving data from the first C2IS in the information data format or data model used by the first C2IS, converting the data into the common information message format or data model used by the ERP, storing the data in the data warehouse in accordance with the common information message format or data model, and sending the data to the second C2IS,

wherein the data warehouse stores additional data received from at least a third C2IS in an information message format or data model other than the common information message format or data model at the same time that the data from the first C2IS is stored, and

wherein the common information message format or data model is Control Information Exchange Data Model.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the EAI comprises at least one information exchange interface based on an information message format and at least one information exchange interface based on a data model.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein data imported into the data warehouse from a C2IS or a remote module is stored in accordance with the information message format or data model of the C2IS or remote module from which the data was imported.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein data exported from the data warehouse to a C2IS or a remote module is exported in accordance with the information message format or data model of the C2IS or remote module to which the data is exported.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data warehouse stores data of different information message formats or data models simultaneously.

6. A computer-implemented method of exchanging data between an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a command and control information system (C2IS), the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving first data at a data warehouse comprising an enterprise application interface (EAI) from a first C2IS or remote module;

importing the first data into the data warehouse via an information exchange interface that corresponds to an information message format or data model of the first C2IS or remote module from which the first data was imported;

converting the first data into a common information message format or data model;

storing the first data in the data warehouse in accordance with the common information message format or data model;

storing second data from a second C2IS in the data warehouse in a format other than the common information message format or data model, wherein the first data and the second data are stored in the data warehouse simultaneously;

receiving a request for the first or second data at the data warehouse from a C2IS or remote module;

converting the first or second data into the information message format or data model of the C2IS from which the request for the first or second data is received; and

exporting the first or second data from the data warehouse via an information exchange interface in accordance with the information message format or data model of the C2IS or remote module to which the data is being exported,

wherein the common information message format or data model is Control Information Exchange Data Model.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the information exchange interface is a component of the EAI.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the EAI comprises at least one information exchange interface based on an information message format and at least one information exchange interface based on a data model.

9. A computer-implemented method of exchanging data between an enterprise resource planning system (ERP) and a command and control information system (C2IS), the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving first data at a communication interface hub from at least a first C2IS, wherein the message format or data model used by the ERP is different from the message format or data model used by the first C2IS;

importing the first data into the communication interface hub via an information exchange interface that corresponds to the information message format or data model of the first C2IS;

converting the first data into a common information message format or data model;

storing the converted first data in a data warehouse; and

storing second data from a second C2IS in the data warehouse in a format other than the common information message format or data model, wherein the first data and the second data are stored in the data warehouse simultaneously,

wherein the common information message format or data model is Control Information Exchange Data Model.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , further comprising:

converting the stored first data from the common information message format or data model to a different information message format or data model; and

exporting the converted first data from the communication interface hub via an information exchange interface that corresponds to the different information message format or data model.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the different information message format or data model corresponds to the information message format or data model of a C2IS to which the data is being exported.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the communication interface hub comprises at least one information exchange interface based on an information message format and at least one information exchange interface based on a data model.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein an information exchange interface used for exchanging data is selected based on a communication interface between the ERP and said first or second C2IS.