Wavelet Integrated Networked Compression Event-Driven AAR Retrieval

Navy after-action reviews (AARs) provide detailed feedback to units on their individual and collective performance in training exercises. As more data, and datasets of increasing size, complexity, and diversity are exchanged among units, the Navy needs acommon wide-band data capture, compression, storage, management, and retrieval system to manage AARs. To address this Navy need, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a novel Wavelet Integrated Networked Compression Event-Driven AARRetrieval (WINCEDAR) system, based on POC's distributed single-board network-centric Common Data Recorder (CDR) hardware and Event-Driven Multimedia Object Networking Digital (EDMOND) software. CDRs acquire and compress multiformat (audio, imagery, video,message, and sensor) data in real time. EDMOND performs Web-based central data retrieval and storage. To facilitate direct and rapid data retrieval by EDMOND, the CDR extracts critical events (simulation start/end, target destroyed) from data duringcompression and stores them in an index table. WINCEDAR will, for the first time, completely capture the wideband multiformat data exchanged during training scenarios, compressed with high fidelity, stored in minimal space, event-synchronized, andinteractively accessed and retrieved for immediate AAR presentation. In Phase I a WINCEDAR model will be assembled to demonstrate feasibility and scalability according to scenario or ship configuration.