High Fidelity Data Management and Access

Advances in submarine tactical systems have led to an exponential increase in archived data from these systems. This data represents a significant opportunity for sailors and decision makers to gain a complete historical record of submarine tactical operations which could prove invaluable for evaluation, reconstruction and training. BKA proposes to conduct research, leveraging advances in grid computing and data warehousing technology, to develop a set of design processes that will lead to building a submarine tactical data warehouse that is scalable and will support large, multi-petabyte databases. Our research approach will focus on developing advances in data warehousing techniques and processes while attempting to leverage existing hardware investments by the Navy. The results of Phase I will be a set of design processes, validated against a test system using a small, representative subset of data, which will be applied in the construction of a prototype data warehouse in Phase II.