Web-Enabled Information Sharing and Data Distribution

A vast amount of intelligence information is being spewed by the C2ISR systems of advanced sensor systems and collection assets belonging to the US and coalition forces. Intelligence in the military sphere is produced from imagery (IMINT), signals (SIGINT), measurement and signatures (MASINT), and humans (HUMINT). It has become a supreme challenge to effectively deal with this overwhelming amount of data in a time-critical manner. A correspondence can be drawn to the multiple information sources of Distributed Common Ground Systems (DCGS) and sources used for commercial business intelligence. The ability to distribute and analyze intelligence is seriously limited not only by the sheer volume of information involved but also by the diversity of technology required. Analyst, warfighters, as well as business managers need to focus on understanding the information rather than the processes to collect and disseminate the information. This proposal offers a solution, built on the Water language and ConceptNet, to the problem of extracting usable information from the range of data flows as well as a means to easily and adaptively make that information and knowledge available to the appropriate parties in a time-critical manner.