Cloud Based Critical Knowledge Retriever (CKR) for a PDA

Effective information sharing services across the networked assets can provide a systemic benefit to DoD. The scale and complexity of DoD information enterprise and unavailability of user friendly access mechanisms makes optimal use of intelligence data difficult. UtopiaCompression proposes a cloud based Critical Knowledge Retriever (CKR) for PDA's. The system will use the capabilities of cloud computing to aggregate relevant information and provide it to the warfighter to help understand the surroundings and the people in it. Our proposed approach allows soldiers with portable devices to efficiently consult remote information services for critical information. Location based summarization will provide warfighters with multiple types of data, e.g., images, text, biometric information, and other unstructured data. UC's proposed architecture leverages well-known technologies such as Hadoop and FrameNet for data redundancy and improved Quality of Service (QoS). The Phase-I effort will include design and evaluation of the proposed CKR system for realistic scenarios.