Tucson Embedded Systems, Inc. (TES) proposes a novel approach to the Navy SBIR 2016.2 Topic N162-101 FACE Transport Protocol Mediation and Integration that reduces risk by a) building upon our existing proven toolset architecture and b) by using key personnel that have considerable experience in model-based, communication protocol, and FACE tool and architecture development, as well as a personal and professional stake in the FACE Technical Standard. In support of the former, our response mitigates risk and increases feasibility and success by exposing, analyzing, documenting, and resolving the differences in the ways in which components have defined their messages (i.e., the semantic, measurement, and type model behind the messages) and the transport protocols used to communicate with other parts of the system, specifically, resolving these issues by taking advantage of, and extending, five (5) areas upon which our development tool suite, called AWESUM FAME is built: FACE Data Architecture, System Unified Model (SUM), AWESUM Tool Architecture, Modeling Wizards, and Tool Interoperability Support. For the latter, TES is committing to this project resources with significant and varying interest and experience in model-based development, enterprise and real-time embedded systems and tool development, and the FACE Technical Standard, with broad coverage across
Benefit: TES will provide the Navy a dual-use tool and process solution that creates a more efficient method for developing and integrating FACE Units of Portability. Benefits include: Open and extensible data formats Unified model Plug-in architecture External toolset integration and augmentation Automation of repetitive and error-prone task Potential for web-based delivery Model repository enabling plug-n-play of models and UoPs Auto documentation and generation of artifacts
Keywords: Tool Interoperability, Tool Interoperability, Modeling, AWESUM, Face, Data architecture, Transport Protocol
