An Ultra-sensitive Optical Biosensor for Food Safety

The Army Material Command (AMC) Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs) have a goal to implement a RDEC Federation. The objective RDEC Federation is to be able to transfer system and subsystem engineering data from CollaborativeEnvironments (CE's), being implemented at each RDEC, into performance parameters, model geometries, and functional behaviors to a common Real-time Evaluation Environment (REE). An implementation goal is to connect the individual RDEC CE's to the REEthrough a Collaborative Biome (CB).Spectra Research, Inc. (S*R) proposes to develop the Continuity Services software to implement an Integration Biome (iBiome) which will provide distributed Java software plug-ins for managing data traceability across multiple networks. The iBiome willdemonstrate that the static integration capabilities and functions desired for the RDEC Collaborative Biome can be implemented through application of leading edge software technologies that include Java, Jini, Jiro, and XML. Under the Phase II effort, S*Rwill develop the iBiome Continuity Services, which will provide data flow and configuration traceability across multiple distributed CEs to the REE. The Continuity Services will also provide support for implementing the Defense Modeling And SimulationOffice's IDEF0 model for modeling and simulation verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) process.