SBIR-STTR Award

APE: Advanced Prototyping Environment
Award last edited on: 11/12/2018

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Navy
Total Award Amount
$565,988
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
N102-185
Principal Investigator
Marc Abrams

Company Information

Harmonia Holdings Group LLC (AKA: Harmonia Inc)

2020 Kraft Drive Suite 1000
Blacksburg, VA 24060
   (540) 951-5900
   information@harmonia.com
   www.harmonia.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 09
County: Montgomery

Phase I

Contract Number: N66001-11-M-5106
Start Date: 1/10/2011    Completed: 7/10/2011
Phase I year
2011
Phase I Amount
$69,968
HUMINT includes text based message traffic, other text document sources composed by humans, particularly the free-form prose text of these messages/documents that can be processed to produce information of value, and other human-produced media types (e.g., video, pictures). Harmonia proposes a new tool, called HFWC ¡V HUMINT Fusion without Coding ¡V that allows analysts to design custom fusion workflows without coding or the need for a programmer to code algorithms to exploit collected, processed, and stored information. HFWC introduces a net-centric data store in a certain format that facilitates the transformation from human analysis to machine-processing, thus providing the essential link between HUMINT and fusion with Multi-INT. Harmonia¡¦s solution also allows an analyst to define small reusable analysis apps, which we call iTel apps, for the intelligence community to rapidly disseminate and share new analysis methods to analysts, form a library of them, and automatically execute them to facilitate HUMINT„_Multi-INT Fusion. A facility to create a corporate memory of analysis methods to additionally accelerate the work of all analysts will be included. The final solution will operate in a cross-domain environment to fuse unclassified data with classified data without compromising security.

Keywords:
Soa, Soa, Fusion, Humint, Analyst, Multi-Int, Human Intelligence, Analytical Tool, Isr&T

Phase II

Contract Number: N66001-12-C-5211
Start Date: 4/11/2012    Completed: 4/10/2013
Phase II year
2012
Phase II Amount
$496,020
While the Navy"s transition from stove-piped systems to a net-centric world built around service oriented architecture (SOA) benefits the warfighter in achieving information dominance, it complicates software development and testing because of the substantial infrastructure involved, making it difficult to assemble a prototyping environment. We propose to create such an Advanced Prototyping Environment (APE) based on open source components that, given a specification of required items, dynamically instantiates virtual machines to provide just the services and components needed to develop and test mission critical services, components, and complete environments (SCEs). Access is controlled via digitally-signed certificates, which determine users"access to resources and SCE trust-level. Developers of new SCEs can use APE to instantiate a stand-alone sandbox on their own hardware, which provides mocked up data behind real service interfaces, providing confidence that code developed will port directly to real services. Owners of finished SCEs can use the bundled APE software/hardware to perform tests with real service interfaces. APE supports multiple groups that are testing different SCEs on its blade servers through hardware virtualization, which is a prelude to deploying SCEs to the Fleet. APE can run in a lab or even be carried onto ships for testing at sea.