INTEGRATED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR VULNERABILITY MODELING

AN INTEGRATED VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT GRAPHICS WORKSTATION IS PROPOSED TO PROVIDE A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR VULNERABILITY MODELING ONA HIGH PERFORMANCE GRAPHICS WORKSTATION. THE LARGE MEMORY REQUIREMENTS OF VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT MODELS COUPLED WITH THE LIMITED MEMORY OF PREVIOUS GENERATION COMPUTERS RESULTED IN PROGRAMS WHICH READ/WRITE DATA SLOWLY FROM TAPE DRIVES AND ARE UNABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OFTHE HIGH RESOLUTION COLOR GRAPHICS, MODERN DATABASE TECHNIQUES, INCREASED COMPUTATIONAL SPEED, AND RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE LOCAL MEMORY OFMODERN COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES. BUILDING ON A CURRENT SBIR PHASE II EFFORT, TITLED THE INTEGRATED VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS (IVA) WORKBENCH,A STUDY, SYSTEM DESIGN, AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE IS PROPOSED IN PHASE I TO CREATE AN INTEGRATED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT ON A HIGH PERFORMANCE GRAPHICS WORKSTATION TO MEET THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER. THE PROPOSED INTEGRATEDVULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT GRAPHICS (IVA-G) WORKBENCH OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS, REDUCE COSTS, AND TO PROVIDEA MODERN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR VULNERABILITY ANALYSTS.