Network Visualization and Statistical Analysis Toolkit

The overall objective of this effort is to address a nagging void in the study of Information Age Warfare: there is no coherent set of tools that military analysts can use to visualize, measure, understand and asses networked military systems. While there has been a great deal of effort expended to develop tools in academia (and to a limited extent for commercial business), these products tend to be one-off, stove-piped computer routines that are not platform independent, have dissimilar input and output data structures, usually require advanced mathematical training or are not tailored to provide answers to the types of questions that warfare analysts might ask. Phase I of this effort will research and design a network visualization and statistical analysis tool for development in Phase II, if awarded.