I use this slide to illustrate how important this technolgy can be to my office in DARPA
A coherehent system of systems
This has been a holy grail for many years.
From National resources to individual soldiers

Of course a key challenge is semantics and Sematicb We R&D has much to contribute
This is so important that I am trying to initiate a second program to complement DAML focused on the semantic interoperability challenges