High Fidelity Data Management and Access

Data collected from modern naval combat systems is increasing at an exponential rate. While these data rates are expected to peak within this decade, the shore infrastructure is ill-prepared to catalog, store, extract, query, or in general to manage this volume of data. Progeny will evaluate applicability of digital archival approaches used in enterprise data warehouses and digital libraries. Arguably, higher media longevity is of low value because current media outlasts the software and devices needed to read the data. While the Navy has expended significant effort to collect tactical data, modern data quality assurance techniques have not yet been employed within these systems to guarantee or even characterize the quality/integrity of the recorded data. Progeny will evaluate modern digital library and E-Commerce approaches to data quality/integrity management to ensure accurate transcription of archived information. Progeny will develop cost effective, executable recommendations to address media and data life issues in the context of this application, design approaches to data cataloging and indexing, and develop in-situ statistical tools to monitor and quantify data loss and/or degradation of data integrity.