Prognostic Tool to Estimate Mission Readiness Based Upon System Health States Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Topic No.: N05-052 Topic Title: Prognostic Tool to Estimate Mission Readiness Based Upon System Health States Proposal No.: N051-052-1227 Firm: RLW, Inc. 2029 Cato Avenue State College, Pennsylvania 16801 Contact: C. Klemick Phone: (814) 867-5122 Web Site: www.rlwinc.com Abstract: Establishing mission readiness depends on interpretation of current condition, historical trends, and class propensities to first establish system health, and then to derive readiness from health conclusions. This proposed approach to predicting mission readiness uses an extensible generic architecture to integrate existing tools with others still in development, such that the prognostic system can be flexibly extended to accommodate all shipboard equipment. The approach maximizes use of industry standards to provide interoperability and access for OEMs who can build equipment that plugs into the architecture and reports its health in standard format. The approach includes definition of a generic health module, or pattern, that enables this form of integration. This approach to mission readiness also creates the means for expert knowledge related to equipment health to reside very close to the equipment, which enhances modularity and simplifies upgrades. Another innovation provides the ability to distribute the logic that performs judgments about mission readiness so it too resides close to the equipment. This offers advantages when the system is asked to respond to "what-if" questions about future capability from the operators or from automated planners. Benefits: This innovation will help codify the approach to equipment health reporting and prediction so that effective involvement of OEMs can take place at low cost. It will also enable us to apply novel system design techniques in developing diagnostic and prognostic architectures for commercial industries in the private sector, because the architecture can readily be extended vertically or horizontally with simple standard interfaces. Return