Patent ID: 7881337

Claim:
An information management system for providing services from a legacy weapon system including a communications subsystem to a defense network including a plurality of nodes, the legacy weapon system not adapted to operate in conjunction with the defense network, the information management system comprising: a system interface configured to connect with the legacy weapon system and responsive to communications with the legacy weapon system; a network interface configured to effect communications with the nodes of the defense network via the communications subsystem; a local system registry accessible to the nodes via the network interface, wherein the local system registry provides an identifier of the weapon system type of the legacy weapon system and status information indicating which services associated with the weapons system type are currently available; and a data processing system in communication with the system interface and the network interface, wherein the data processing system responds to a service request from a node received via the network interface by: requesting a service response according to the service request from the legacy weapon system via the system interface; receiving the service response from the legacy weapon system; translating the service response to a format useable by the node; and transmitting the translated service response to the node via the network interface and the communications subsystem.