| The judgment support environment was developed by the government to support military, law enforcement and civilian crisis needs. |
| Although these applications are critical to the nation there is not a large enough market to expect an industry to develop on its own. |
| However proper attention to well chosen standards, allows the crisis management application to build on top of NII services designed for larger areas such as digital libraries, electronic commerce, manufacturing and health care. |
| The thriving middleware industry supplies the necessary integration technologies including agents, wrappers and graphical scripting environments. |