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-045-0037 Firm: Solute, Inc. 4250 Pacific Highway Suite 211 San Diego, California 92110-3222 Contact: Robert Wong Phone: (619) 758-9900 Web Site: http://www.solute.us Abstract: The SOLUTE team's Phase I technical approach consists primarily of a feasibility study assessing the viability of a Navy implementation of the algorithms, standards, and protocols that comprise Google's Wave technology. Of specific concern is Wave's ability to handle varying bandwidth and DIL communications channels associated with Navy platforms. While computer science research in the field of operational transform theory points positively toward a viable Navy implementation of the Wave Federation Protocol, detailed examination of the specific algorithms in collaboration with Wave project engineers at Google is required. Phase I includes assessment of Wave's capability to fully handle the functionalities and capabilities required by Navy C2 needs. Our research will investigate this from a general perspective, conducting a thorough analysis of baseline functionality requirements for web-based applications. Additionally, our research will specifically explore wave gadgets and robots for supporting rich collaborative mapping and rich collaborative chat applications. Lastly, the Wave client in its current form neglects robust security measures. This research will include identification of minimum security and role based permissions required to support the Navy C2 hierarchy. Benefits: The application of Google Wave technology to the Navy C2 problem provides a path to migrate from stove-piped legacy C2 systems to a collaborative open architecture C2 application environment. This provides for a marked increase in the Navy's ability to field C2 functionality while decreasing the time for functionality to reach the operator. Additionally, the collaborative nature of Wave puts shared C2 information in context allowing Navy warfighters to focus more on decision making and less on operation of C2 tools. Specifically, the challenge of applying Wave technology for the Navy requires solving the complicated problem of fielding a self-synchronizing federated server architecture in an environment of disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) communication channels. Research resulting in solutions to the DIL challenge will be feed back to the open source Wave community allowing the benefit to be realized in commercial applications that face similarly constrained communications environments. Return