Shipboard SW Deployment Tools for Complex Heterogeneous Systems

Our approach toward the successful completion of the task is to design a best of breed software management architecture that addresses innovative techniques for the Install, Activate, and Deactivate activities. Install activity covers the transfer from producer to consumer and the installation at the consumer site. Activate and Deactivate cover initialization and shutdown of the software, respectively. We will leverage USW-DSS tools and processes such as Install Anywhere packages, patch manager, backup manager and reinstallation scheme. Additionally, our solution will leverage Universal Gateway Bulk Data Transfer components and NSSN Shipboard Monitoring System (NSMS). We will develop a prototype and CONOPS-type white paper for deployment usage.