Real-Time Heterogeneous Data Fusion and Display Factory

The key barrier to realizing new capabilities in real-time data fusion and display systems is integrating current research & development software assets from academia, commercial and military. In practice, almost 100% of real-time data fusion and display systems are custom software driven by domain and often task-specific requirements. In the domain of military data fusion and display systems, mission changes result in requirements change and thus integration of new capabilities is the most significant problem. The innovation leverages distributed object-based technology for advancing Data Fusion and Display software components. The promise of component-based applications is to enable developers and end-users to nd matching prefabricated software components. With Air Force guidance, a selected set of Data Fusion and Display software, libraries and data will be transformed into components. Users will be able to assemble custom applications from components located anywhere on the network while developers continue to add new components. Reusable components will result in significant reductions in the cost of Data Fusion and Display application system development, test, and upgrade. The result is the ability to adapt quickly to different user and mission demands, while achieving reliability through the reuse of verified components.