Leveraging a Robust Data Architecture for Rapid Combat System Integration, Testing, and Certification

Traditional integration approaches include numerous hand-generated and maintained mediation gateways, bridges, and interface adapters. Each integration evolution requires a full evaluation of every interface in every system, introducing errors resulting from incomplete understanding of data and its semantics. This traditional process yields brittle and incomplete integration solutions, inadequately tested software prone to error, and most significantly, one-off integration efforts with every system modification. This proposal leverages Skayl’s first generation sematic-aware integration compiler, and seeks to research, test and quantify further developments to this technology including the development of techniques for real-time signal and state management. This innovation will provide a more efficient and more cost-effective integration solution that can be dynamically reconfigured as requirements, systems, and interfaces (and even as real-time operational conditions) change. During the SBIR, Skayl will identify fundamental concepts relating to signals, state and behavior as related to the needs of combat systems and formally document them in a data model. Skayl will then develop metrics & approaches for testing real-time integration in order to provide quantitative results of increases in efficiency as well as identifying areas for further development and improvement.