SBIR-STTR Award

Situational Awareness for Network Centric Warfare requires the ability to access raw and exploited data and to be able to transform that data into information. Currently, battlefield intelligence data is provided by real-time sensors (GMTI, ELINT, TRAP/TRE), databases (MIDB, IPL, and AODB), finished intelligence products, plus exploited HUMINT, COMINT and UAV. These systems all provide their information in various formats such as streamed text, USMTF messages, PDF, HTML, Word documents and relational databases. Access methodologies vary from proprietary APIs to more standard methods such as JDBC, HTTP and Web Services. In phase I, R & D Software Systems proposes to design and develop a prototype distributed Intelligent Data and Information Collection system which will provide secure access to the both the structured and semi-structured data sources mentioned above plus the unstructured data available on the Web delivering the data in a single format such as XML. The proposed system has many dual use applications. For example, the commercial side may require access to both structured and unstructured data to perform both market and product research. Law Enforcement requires access to many structured and semi-structured data sources in order to perform a thorough money laundering or drug trafficking investigation

The objective of this research task is to complete development of our Phase I prototype and have a resulting Enhanced Intelligent Data & Information System that is secure and expandable complete with flexible auditing and authentication capabilities, while remaining easy to use, access and configure. Situational Awareness for Network Centric Warfare requires the ability to both access raw and exploited data and be able to transform that data into information. Currently, battlefield intelligence data is provided by a vast array of real-time sensors (GMTI, ELINT, TRAP/TRE), archival databases (MIDB and AODB), finished intelligence products, imagery and exploited HUMINT, COMINT and UAV. These systems all provide their information in various formats such as streamed text, USMTF messages, XML, PDF, HTML, Word documents and relational database metadata. Our final product will access the system with a single JAVA API and supplemental Web based API, which utilize both JAVA RMI and Web Services. In addition, this system will provide a Source Access toolkit which will allow system developers the ability to create their own source access components for proprietary sources having unique APIs. The Source Access toolkit will set this system apart from others of a similar genre

Keywords:
JAVA JDBC PUBLISH SUBSCRIBE HTTP JSP RMI