The US military must provide the right information to its warfighters in a timely manner. This must be done securely, to a large variety of mobile devices across different networks, in different formats, and using multiple protocols. Mobile devices should be used to receive information from the network, gather data, and send it to the network. The commercial products for these purposes do not meet many military requirements, such as security and Net-Centricity. The military has a major problem in connecting legacy systems, and adding new, proprietary commercial systems would only exacerbate the problem. We propose a system to manage information from and to a wide variety of mobile devices across networks called a Secure Information Mobile System (SIMS) that will integrate with the military Net-Centric approach. It is a standards-based, extensible, secure and unified approach to coordinate multiple devices over multiple networks, while minimizing information overload. SIMS utilizes commercial products and standards, including Semantic Web technologies, and both new and legacy military communications systems, including airborne networks, UAVs and space assets. It will both forward and gather information to and from a variety of devices, accept new devices and software readily, and be domain independent.
Benefit: This system is designed to deliver and receive information from a wide variety of devices, integrate legacy, military and commercial mobile information systems, in order to provide the warfighter with the right information at the right time. This technology will be beneficial to the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and major industrial organizations.
Keywords: Information Delivery, Ontology
