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Lean Services Architecture

The military-strength open protocol and architecture that powers rapid, scalable digital interoperability

The Lean Services Architecture (LSA) is a streamlined, efficient approach to designing and building integrated solutions that are highly distributed and not reliant on central servers for their operation.

It is an architecture designed to deliver ‘any-to-any’ digital interoperability between diverse systems and devices – typically unattended, wearable or vehicle-borne – often operating at the edge, where computing resources are limited and network connectivity is unreliable or non-internet-based.

It enhances Internet of Things (IoT) environments through a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) that enables scalability and flexibility, allowing systems to dynamically enter the operational environment and automatically discover available services.

Lean Services Architecture

Its modular architecture enables organisations to adopt and integrate new technologies at the pace of operational need, while containing development risk and limiting its impact on other systems and services.

Designed for efficiency, it minimises technical resource demands, making it well suited for IoT scenarios where devices may be constrained by power, processing or network limitations. This ensures even low-power, resource-limited devices can operate reliably.

The architecture also ensures dependable interoperability by storing data until communications are restored, and by automatically selecting the best available route—capable of ‘hopping’ across multiple communication systems. This makes LSA-based solutions particularly effective for mission-critical operations.

The Lean Services Architecture Specification was invented and authored by 2iC and published under the Open Government Licence by the UK Ministry of Defence

Decentralised Operating Procedures (DOP)

2iC Decentralised Operating Procedures (DOP) allow the practical application of Business Processes to the lean technology environment and provides a flexible way to coordinate distributed systems supplied by multiple vendors.

DOPs achieve business outcomes by defining the interactions across distributed systems. Every event, activity and data flow is in the context of an objective and is tagged with security, priority and context information, enabling effective systems interoperability.

Once designed, DOPs are deployed to run alongside existing technology with negligible overhead.

2iC Tactical Cross Domain Solution

The 2iC Tactical Cross Domain Solution is a further enhancement of the Lean Services Architecture and Decentralised Operating Procedures (DOP) capability.

Designed to enable flexible Assured Interoperability between systems and networks. It is the missing piece needed to ensure the flexible coordination and two-way free-flow of information between different trust domains. These may be defined by different security classifications, safety critical boundaries, departmental or national boundaries. Each trust domain will have different management and ownership.

This innovation won the 2013 DSEI Innovation Challenge Award, which seeks the innovation most likely to make the biggest impact on defence and security.