The use of Self-Managing Software Agents to Improve Application and Network Reliability and Data Accessibility

Non-tactical information systems utilized by Navy commands include substantial amounts of data in support of personnel management, maintenance, operations, and training. However, in today's environment, many of these information systems are closed in nature, which prevents data reuse and limits data accessibility. As a result, rather than interfacing with an existing data store or application, it is often necessary to create and maintain redundant data for each new application. The Relational Administrative Data Management (RADM) application within the NTCSS suite is one such system with limited ability to share data with external applications. One of the desired outcomes outlined in the original N07-064 solicitation was for an open architecture (OA) software solution which could evolve these non-tactical information systems to work more effectively and synergistically to support command tasks, both afloat and ashore. This Phase II.5 effort will result in a RADM open architecture (RADM-OA) prototype with support for a limited set of RADM functional modules, and will serve as the foundation for development of the production RADM-OA system through follow-on efforts.