Providing Information Anytime, Anywhere, and on Any Device

"A research and development effort to build a prototype distributed infrastructure for the derivation and dissemination of data, knowledge and information for the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) Publish and Subscribe (P/S) paradigm is proposed. Theprototype will emphasize the client side of the JBI architecture where the user's computing device can vary substantially in hardware, software and connectivity. Today's Internet user is able to connect with the net at any time using any of a wide varietyof devices, each with different hardware and software capabilities. Our emphasis is to provide methods for users to interface with a JBI infrastructure that will support the efficient rapid access to distributed knowledge base repositories. The resultantknowledge will be intelligently disseminated to clients independent of computing device or connection. We will use the appropriate specifications and standards such as those of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and leverage the numerous research effortsfunded by the USAF and DARPA. We have successfully demonstrated portions of P/S using email, voice, and wireless connections over the Internet. Our goal is to build a infrastructure software architecture and those software tools that will be used toprovide data, knowledge and information to a dynamic user independent of domain, emphasizing speed and efficiency."