Data Storage and Transmission Strategies for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Topic No.: N122-145 Topic Title: Data Storage and Transmission Strategies for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Proposal No.: N122-145-0991 Firm: Concentris Systems LLC 2800 Woodlawn Drive Suite 238 Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Contact: Tareq Hoque Phone: (808) 781-2000 Web Site: http://www.concentris-systems.com Abstract: The Department of Defense Joint Vision 2020 aims to create a force that is dominant across the full spectrum of military operations through information superiority. Achieving these objectives implies the ability to dynamically share and store data among potentially thousands of participants at the tactical edge, including users of Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (HMS) radios. However, this potentially exposes these platforms to capture, compromise, and cryptanalytic attacks. Concentris Systems proposes to leverage recent advances in peer-to-peer storage to provide a distributed data storage service for mobile ad hoc networks in which confidential information stored on individual nodes is not vulnerable to concerted cryptanalysis. The proposed system provides a generalized approach to discovery, replication, reliability, and availability for data in the tactical ad hoc network, and offers a roadmap for data persistence when connected to back-end enterprise networks. The solution will provide interoperability with key standards required by the DoD Network-Centric Operations objectives to ultimately produce a cost-effective, dual-use, commercially-viable product. The design and implementation of such a framework would greatly accelerate the realization of the DoD's Joint Vision 2020 objectives for highly mobile missions in non-traditional areas of operation. Benefits: A large and developing market for secure mobile storage technology exists among the providers and customers of fleet management and automotive computing platforms where reliability, confidentiality, and data integrity are of utmost importance. Companies in the virtual and cloud-based storage space, such as Amazon and Citrix, are interested in extending persistent data to disconnected mobile units. Similarly, Software-as-a-Service vendors serving highly mobile workforces, such as Salesforce.com are expected to have an interest in the technology. Additional capabilities enabled by this technology are can be leveraged by federated and collaborative systems such as air traffic control, logistical coordination, utility infrastructure management, and emergency services management. The technology described in this proposal project is highly synergistic with Concentris' existing products and capabilities, including the Distributed Services Framework for MANETs and CycloSense Spectrum Awareness for SDR Platforms. Based on existing markets and interest expected from vendors, conservative estimates place the immediate market opportunity for a distributed mobile storage suite between ten and twenty million dollars. Return