C4ISR Architecture and Tactical Systems Planning Tool

As technology has advanced, the complexity of systems has increased geometrically. The environments encompassing these systems must increase in scope to fully understand the impact of requirements and design changes. Trident's work with the Naval Collaborative Engineering Environment (NCEE) has helped to establish a baseline environment around our InterchangeSE technology and an approach which will be used in determining the requirements of this initial full scale environment including a detailed architectural specification based on those requirements. Under the NCEE, some initial research was performed into the development of a Schema that would allow engineering data to be stored coherently in a common repository. This schema is based on system engineering standards such as IEEE 1220 and EIA 632 and extended to support DODOF and UML. We are currently updating that schema to be CADM compliant and being able to import and export CADM XML. This integrated environment runs on a standard commercial desktop platform, uses a commercially available database, is capable of either stand-alone use or in a distributed client-server fashion, is secure (installed on SIPRNET at NSWCDD), performs configuration management of the data, provides access controls at the individual attribute level, and informs users of changes in data marked as important to them. There is support for open standards for sharing data such as XML and CSV as well as an open API for third party developers to build applications to communicate and share data with the repository. Finally, Trident Systems has performed research with InterchangeSE and web services which, if fully integrated would provide a service-based environment compatible with the emerging network centric enterprise system.