TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this project is to develop web service based architecture to revolutionize the Navy’s approach to planning, assessing, scheduling, and maintaining configuration control under the guidance of the C5I modernization process for Strike Force deployment baselines. System architecture is to be developed for the implementation of this model; hardware, network, and COTS product components are to be evaluated and selected to create an integrated working System of Systems representing the selected architecture. This is to include a methodology for ensuring information assurance in a multi-level secured environment.

Proof of concept is to be provided to demonstrate the model’s usefulness in integrating the science of service-oriented technology for application-to-application communication as well as the assembled system’s interoperability, portability flexibility, scalability and reliability, and conformance with the secured data transmission and processing requirements. The initial version of the working system is to be developed that can function with the legacy source databases following the completion of proof of concept demonstrations and evaluation of user feedback. Simultaneously, a transition process is to be put in place to incorporate new and emerging source databases, models, and architectures, and new application programs that interact with the Afloat Master Planning System module and the Navy Development Environment (NDE) to generate near real time information that can be used by the decision makers.

DESCRIPTION: The architecture will enable a system-of-system communication approach that employs capabilities for: (a) simple and ubiquitous interfaces to all participating software agents; (b) descriptive messages constrained by an extensible schema delivered through the interfaces; (c) stateless service; (d) stateful service; (e) high assurance multi-level servers. This architecture must be capable of safeguarding the integrity of data and transactions, minimize performance degradation and gridlocks, and perform in a minimum of three security level environment.

PHASE I: The objective of work during Phase I is to develop a system concept to demonstrate that web and knowledge services can expedite data flow from one module of the NDE to another meeting the required application-to-application communication concept then perform the necessary knowledge management associated with decision performance, acknowledgement and capture. This system concept will articulate the transition of data between an unclassified and secured environment. This will be accomplished with a minimum of two security level environment with a transition plan of performing Phase II in a minimum of a three security level environment.

PHASE II: The objective of Phase II is to develop an executable architecture that can be used to exercise the broader community of users and other affiliated modules of AMPS and the NDE, obtain feedback, and enhance the architecture to function in a multi-level secured environment. This may have the potential to be a fast-track phase.

PHASE III: The objective of Phase III is to transition the architecture to apply the application-to-application communication concept implemented in the NDE to the joint force C5I data environment for planning, scheduling, assessing, and maintaining configuration control for enhanced battle management.

PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL/DUAL-USE APPLICATIONS: The problem of determining the readiness and interoperability extends from naval task forces to multi-service and multi-country forces engaged in joint and combined operations. The architecture that is developed under this project is expected to be of interest to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and NATO.

REFERENCES:
1. URL https://www.nde.navy.mil/
2. Enterprise SOA Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices by Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama (C) 2005Pearson Education, Inc.

KEYWORDS: Strike Force Readiness; C5IMP; Combat Systems Interoperability; Service-Oriented Architecture; Knowledge Based Services; Web Based Services; Information Assurance; Information Security; Multi-level Security

TPOC: Bill Douglas
Phone: (202)781-3542
Fax: (202)781-4568
Email: [email protected]
2nd TPOC: Michal Glenn
Phone: (202)781-3547
Fax:
Email: [email protected]

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