SBIR-STTR Award

This project proposes research directed toward the rapid design, development, construction, and deployment of a prototype Heterogeneous Asymmetric Warfare Crisis Management System (HAWCMS). The HAWCMS will integrate extant data sources, chemical, biological, nuclear, radiation, explosive, and environmental sensor and systems outputs via wireless, internet, SIPRNET, Ethernet, 802.11b, free-space optical, and voice/data switching technologies into an open, plug-and-play, secure, distributed, web-based, client/server architecture, employ intuitive GUIs customized for each system client, and then distribute doctrinally-based actions in response to crises and appropriate recommendations regarding courses of action (COA) based upon real-time or trend-analyzed data. The system will additionally provide mission, action, or event planning capabilities, predictive WMD analysis, and a simulation capability for crisis response rehearsal or COA analysis.

Benefits:
Improved Asymmetric Warfare Defensive systems, improved crisis response, reduction in damage caused by asymmetric warfare or disaster events, reduction in required manpower for increased levels of security for military assets, geographic locations, or strategic entities. Commercial Applications: Naval vessel/port/pier security, commercial shipping security, first-responder training, rehearsal, and crisis simulation capability, emergency response systems capability

During the Phase 1 effort, a detailed architectural design for an Intelligent Consequent Management System (ICMS) was created. This architecture serves as the basis for Phase II work. The architecture describes a Consequence Management (CM) network comprised of two basic types of nodes: Intelligent Servers (IS) and Thin-client Applications (TCA). IS nodes service a selected set of TCAs within a given LAN or sub-network, forming a Consequence Management Cluster (CMC). Each CMC functions as a simple client-server based network of computers. IS nodes have the duty of communicating with other IS nodes that are managing other CMCs (peer CMCs). The IS nodes intelligently and selectively replicate information of interest to their peer CMCs, forming a synchronized network of distributed information. ICMS capabilities include autonomous publication and subscription, designation of events and event types, and user-defined data and search categories, and content-base filters and communication triggers. The system provides robust, autonomous, encrypted messaging, topic searching, and information exchange