Development of Battlespace Information Flow and Content Methodology

We propose to develop a new methodology for enabling dynamically controlled-information flow between battlespace systems. This methodology will be grounded in three core capabilities: ontologically-based messaging, goal-driven information retrieval and negotiation-based information interchange. A feasibility prototype will be developed in the form of a simulated WDA (warfighter digital assistant) connected to a semantic information bus on which there will be two or more agent-based data sources (most likely linked to GCCS and/or C2PC). The WDA will be capable of accepting level 1 fusion goals (i.e., tracking, classification, identification) that it will use to probe for information sources available on the semantic information bus and then submit appropriate negotiation-based queries to gather or listen for relevant information from multiple sources. We will use the prototype to conduct experiments in which we quantitatively measure and contrast performance improvements and cost savings afforded by the proposed approach relative to existing methods.