Collaboration Archive System (CAS)

Collaboration tools are increasingly important to the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC), law enforcement agencies that are involved with our national security. Industry standards, including H.323 and T.120 enable interoperability between compliantapplications for audio & video teleconferencing, and share whiteboard. The majority of the commercial applications, however, do not provide recording capabilities. The few that do provide recording and playback capabilities, only do so using a proprietaryformat, and do not provide sufficient means to archive and retrieve large numbers of collaboration recordings efficiently. An integrated collaboration archive system is needed to allow IC users to capture, record, save, and retrieve collaborativesessions.The IC relies heavily on advanced archive systems. Several IC agencies have developed their own archive systems. AFRL has developed Broadsword to provide uniform data access and security across these separate archive systems. There is a clear requirementto integrate commercial collaboration technology with the Air Force & IC archive infrastructure.Trident Systems proposes to integrate a standards-based conference server with Broadsword. The Collaboration Archive System will enable IC users to record, archive and playback collaborative intelligence products. By giving IC users state-of-the-art tools,the intelligence production cycle can be significantly improved.