Broadata Tactical Information Management System

The amount of data streaming into tactical systems is overwhelming the operators. The amount of information is so much that the situational awareness regarding the unfolding situations is difficult to extract from large amounts of data. The goal of this SBIR is to design and develop a framework for managing information with emphasis on the relative value of that information for a wide range of operations. To meet the goals of this SBIR, we propose a Tactical Information Management System or TIMS in this proposal. TIMS can be installed at the combat operations center. In this case, the data will be available from multiple sources and stored in the databases. TIMS shall implement detailed algorithms for filtering and prioritizing the data. The filtered data will be forwarded to the warfighters over low throughput links or to higher or adjacent command as need. Data filtering and prioritization algorithms in TIMS will include data processing and condition algorithms, algorithms to perform indexing and semantic analysis of the algorithms. A detailed approach for ranking the data is described. Multiple data attributes will be considered in information prioritization.