New Condition Based Maintenance and Energy Command and Control Network Architectures for the Naval Expeditionary Force

Research Proposed: Building off of the successful Phase I design effort, research is proposed to refine and develop an innovative transfer method and network architecture for autonomously uploading condition based maintenance (CBM) and energy command and control (C2) data to CBM data warehouses. This novel approach will also allow for operation over limited bandwidth links, including real-time visibility of data from remote locations. Problem Statement: Capturing CBM data in an efficient manner is key to maintaining accurate predictions of vehicle health. Current solutions require manual connection or wireless links with insufficient data transfer rates for the CBM data. Additionally, they often pose cross-domain transfer issues and lack of visibility of real-time data over wireless tactical data links.Plan/Process Outline: The Phase I design will be developed into a system for autonomously uploading CBM data over radios including bandwidth-limited networks. With approaches in pre-processing and passive RFID tags for autonomous upload triggering, this architecture will allow for automatic upload in garrison and support in theater transmission of data to a remote dashboard application. Where applicable, cross-domain data diode capability will be used to support transfer of CBM data to other network domains, allowing for communication with secure tactical networks.