Development of Navy Wave Rich Collaboration for Command and Control Navy STTR FY2010.A Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2010.A Topic No.: N10A-T045 Topic Title: Development of Navy Wave Rich Collaboration for Command and Control Proposal No.: N10A-045-0738 Firm: Systems Engineering Solutions, Inc. (SESI) 2301 Gallows Road Suite 200 Dunn Loring, Virginia 22027 Contact: Anthony Watkins Phone: (202) 438-2775 Web Site: WWW.SESI.COM Abstract: Collaboration, always the bane of effective operations, has seen numerous advances towards providing solutions for concurrent action, immersion within the domain, knowledge mining within a common perspective, and inculcation of stakeholder's defined robots. Google Wave is at the forefront for making these capabilities available all within a web environment, and Systems Engineering Solutions, Inc (SESI) is the first and only company listed as a contributor to the Google Wave protocol for this groundbreaking technology. Partnered with Old Dominion University SESI provides the solution for integrating Wave into the Navy's Command and Control Architecture. A SESI developed Wave tool-set will change how Naval Commanders in the AOR construct and interact with a traditional Common Operating Picture by: a) allowing naval stakeholders to connect and disconnect from the collaboration network as needed but still contributing to the COP while offline, b) allow documents and media to be incorporated into the COP inline, allowing for the consistent context of the surrounding conversation to always be apparent, and c) allowing robots to take part in a conversation acting as their creators define, adding value and context to the COP automatically. Benefits: Benefits:  With such a powerful set of tools the Navy C2 architecture could face a revolution in how the commanders in the field construct and interact with the traditional Common Operating Picture  Wave especially suits the Navy C2 architecture in the fact that it is both collaboratively concurrent yet capable of disjoint operations, allowing naval platforms to connect and disconnect from the network as needed but still contributing to the COP while offline  Documents and media may be incorporated into the COP inline, allowing for the consistent context of the surrounding conversation to always be apparent  Previously hidden knowledge within the COP may be captured after the fact as scenarios are played back, traversing the history incrementally or swiftly, always allowing the ability to rewind time  Robots may take part in a conversation, adding value and context to the COP automatically, acting as their creators define  The Wave protocol can be integrated into the current C2 architecture, leveraging existing systems  Conversations can be held asynchronously and in a disconnected manner  Servers may disconnect and reconnect to the federated network at will with no loss in the conversation  Ability to operate in low-bandwidth conditions over an established protocol  Supports real-time collaboration, robots, gadgets and maps all within a browser  Improves individual, group and corporate decision making  Collaborative tools allow for the inclusion of social perspectives in decisions; web based applications provide for [near] real-time information and data; and web based services allow for the integration of a wide variety of information into highly evolved, abstract representation to aid the decision maker Commercialization  The market that the technology is targeted for is commonly referred to as Business Intelligence (BI).  The Business Intelligence market is growing rapidly.  Technologies that are presently evolving (e.g. Wave) are set to revolutionize the BI market. Return