SBIR-STTR Award

The contractor proposes the development of an "In-transit Visibility Model". The "model's" architecture will incorporate advanced graphical user interface software tools, object-oriented and relational data base tools, and be envoloped with applications and communication software to enable the effective and efficient integration of cargo and passenger movements initiated by DoD. The proposed in-transit visibility model in Phase I will: Enable the AMC and other DoD users to interact with the DoD transportation system and perform C2 functions for cargo and passenger movements. This tool will assist the user to logically navigate through the heterogeneous systems of AMC, MTMC, and MSC, and commercial carriers containing information about military cargo and personnel movements. Demonstrate a functional and technical integration in real time of the "data feeds" from several DoD transportation and commercial carriers' systems into a single "interactive user friendly" terminal running the proposed ITV Model software. This ITVM will be the foundation for developing in Phase II a prototype ITV system to provide real-time access, consolidation and review of planned, in-transit (en-route) and completed (terminated) cargo and passenger movements.

Keywords:
in-transit visibility model itv transportation itv architecture graphical user interface

Following the successful completion of Phase I, Bremer proposes the continued development of a software application to address the cost effective integration of distributed data residing in heterogenous systems by: Enabling functional end-users to dynamically define the data elements to be interfaced and build the transactions and access rules governing the interfaces among systems; and Automatically make these transactions and access rules available to a communications information gateway to effect seamless data exchange among heterogeneous systems. Specifically, the proposed software application which Bremer calls the Dynamic Information Gateway Management System (DIGMAS) will enable the interactive creation and maintenance of SQL-based schema for all business data elements required to be interfaced by two or more systems. In addition, the proposed DIGMAS application will enable the user to interactively create transaction types (e.g., USMTF standard messages and IMS DC transactions) that can be processed by the interfacing systems, and be dynamically linked to a data communications information gateway connected to LAN/WAN front-end communications processors to facilitateseamless data exchange among these systems.