J-DASP: JBI Dynamic Administration, Simulation and Policy

ISX and its subcontractors, three researchers associated with the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), propose to design J-DASP, the JBI Dynamic Administration, Simulation and Policy toolkit. J-DASP will play a key role in enabling the Network Centric Warfare vision by enhancing existing Joint Battlespace Infosphere capabilities with an administration toolkit that will provide dynamic policy management, visualization of infosphere operations, and simulation of changes to the state of the infosphere. J-DASP policy will determine access control, prioritization of information flow, as well as parameters of the platform's persistence and caching mechanisms. Its simulation capabilities will allow administrators to predict the effects of changes to the platform from administrative actions, the introduction of new clients, or changes in client behavior. These capabilities will be based on mature research products and commercial tools, including IHMC's KAoS Domain and Policy Services, which have been used to provide dynamic policy management for a variety of software environments including the DARPA CoABS Grid and the DARPA ALP/UltraLog Cougaar agent framework, and the AFRL JBI v1.1 Platform Services. The maturity of these research results will allow to us produce immediate Phase I results and to provide a design for advanced Phase II capabilities.