Distributed Analysis Tool for Enterprise Monitoring (DATEM)

The Navy has made significant investment in the design, development, and deployment of net-centric information systems that provide critical support to fleet operations. Unfortunately, adverse operational conditions affect the availability and performance of distributed information systems. Since their current systems situation awareness is inadequate, system operators, administrators, and managers cannot adapt to current and predicted conditions to maximize mission readiness and minimize downtime. These users require real-time alerting systems that provide tripwires that identify operator behaviors, emergent conditions, or reduction in available resources that influence the effectiveness of operations. Having successfully demonstrated the feasibility under a Phase I SBIR effort, Charles River Analytics is pleased to propose a Phase II effort to develop and evaluate a Distributed Analysis Tool for Enterprise Monitoring (DATEM). DATEM is a distributed monitoring and alerting system that sets tripwires to detect deviations in operator and system behaviors that are important to mission success. DATEM uses non-invasive monitoring tools to gather, extract, aggregate, summarize, and reason about this system data in the context of the current mission. DATEM uses probabilistic models to deal with uncertain, missing, and erroneous data in tripwires that alert operators, administrator, managers, and commanders of system conditions that may threaten mission readiness.