Partnering for
Transformation

Navy Warfare Development Command

12 February 2002

Purpose

Describe the mission of the Navy Warfare Development Command

Describe the Transformation Journey NWDC & partners has been on to deliver actionable and confirmable information to the warfighter from sensors and data sources while reducing manpower

Highlight potential opportunities for DAML and NWDC collaboration

Slide 3

FY 01 Partnership for Transition

Rationale for Partnering

Expeditionary Sensor Grid (ESG) Vision

Tens of thousands of distributed sensors, networked to exploit new target phenomenology and discriminates

Management of distributed resources and processes

Autonomous systems and processes

Complex and dynamic environment

Rapidly moving data to actionable and confirmable information while reducing manpower

Data and information access and characterization (syntax and semantic)

Data manipulation and fusion

Information representation and presentation

FY 02 Desired Outcomes

Sufficient level of validation of ESG Agent Based Computing concept to establish broad acceptance in the Naval and DOD community.

Information centric systems based on ABC provides dramatically improved capabilities for achieving information superiority.

ABC provides a robust architecture for netting real sensors and systems

ABC demonstrates positive contribution to operating highly distributed sensors, data bases, and information systems to support the warfighter

Grand Hypothesis

Agent based computing can form the basis of an infrastructure that will enable the delivery of actionable and confirmable information to the warfighter from large numbers of heterogeneous sensors and systems while reducing manning.

Questions

Can semantic approaches better facilitate the identification, retrieval, and manipulation of data and information?

Can computer agent, publish and subscribe, and fuselet approaches better facilitate the delivery of data and information to the appropriate end user?

Can semantic approaches and ABC reduce manning, while delivering needed information to the appropriate end user?

Questions (cont)

Are the FY01 CoABS Grid interoperability and dynamic reconfiguration results extensible to real (operational) sensors, data bases, and applications?

Can semantic and ABC approaches improve data aggregation and fusion?

ESG Functional Architecture

Sensor Data Output Options

Time of event

Sensor location

Direction to event

Event description

Frequency

Level

Sensor error model

Questions?


	Describe the mission of the Navy Warfare Development Command

	Describe the Transformation Journey NWDC & partners has been on to deliver actionable and confirmable information to the warfighter from sensors and data sources while reducing manpower

	Highlight potential opportunities for DAML and NWDC collaboration


	Tens of thousands of distributed sensors, networked to exploit new target phenomenology and discriminates
	Management of distributed resources and processes
		Autonomous systems and processes
		Complex and dynamic environment
	Rapidly moving data to actionable and confirmable information while reducing manpower
		Data and information access and characterization (syntax and semantic)
		Data manipulation and fusion
		Information representation and presentation


	Sufficient level of validation of ESG Agent Based Computing concept to establish broad acceptance in the Naval and DOD community.
		Information centric systems based on ABC provides dramatically improved capabilities for achieving information superiority.
		ABC provides a robust architecture for netting real sensors and systems
		ABC demonstrates positive contribution to operating highly distributed sensors, data bases, and information systems to support the warfighter


	Agent based computing can form the basis of an infrastructure that will enable the delivery of actionable and confirmable information to the warfighter from large numbers of heterogeneous sensors and systems while reducing manning.


	Can semantic approaches better facilitate the identification, retrieval, and manipulation of data and information?
	Can computer agent, publish and subscribe, and fuselet approaches better facilitate the delivery of data and information to the appropriate end user?
	Can semantic approaches and ABC reduce manning, while delivering needed information to the appropriate end user?


	Are the FY01 CoABS Grid interoperability and dynamic reconfiguration results extensible to real (operational) sensors, data bases, and applications?
	Can semantic and ABC approaches improve data aggregation and fusion?


	Time of event
	Sensor location
	Direction to event
	Event description
		Frequency
		Level
	Sensor error model