Common Software Foundation

Under the Common Operating Environment (COE) the Army is executing a number of efforts targeting collapse of solutions from dozens of hardware and software foundations to a handful of Computing Environments (CEs). This is being done in order to realize cost savings through reduced redundancy and increase interoperability. Three of those CEs are the Mobile/Handheld, Mounted, and Command Post.. It is the intent of this SBIR to design (and ultimately build) a single foundation that could be utilized across those 3 environments. This single software foundation will leveraged across all 3 domains. The foundation should be flexible enough so that while a common core is utilized across the 3 domains, different user interface components, varying screen sizes, and various states of connectivity (large, limited, no bandwidth) are supported. Additionally, the solution must have an associated Software Development Kit (SDK) that 3rd party groups can leverage to develop solutions.