Management of Distributed Real-time Databases

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is looking for technologies to support the management of advanced real-time distributed databases that are required to enable an optimal environment for tight coupling, low latency, and real-time database solutions forGround-based Midcourse Defense applications such as those found in Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) systems. Decision makers utilizing BMC2 systems require the capability to integrate and manage large amounts of data from heterogeneous sourcesover distributed environments. BMC2 for missile defense requires the coordination of widely distributed processing elements and high-speed scalable communications.RAM Laboratories will build real-time distributed data management and processing software by implementing a software architecture based on RAM Laboratories' state of the art WarpIV software framework. This effort will leverage parallel data miningcapabilities, data latency reduction over wide area networks, and cluster analysis algorithms that are being developed through other efforts. The Phase I effort will involve integrating these technologies together to address BMC2 applications as a roughproof of concept. The resultant framework will be used to conduct experimental efforts to demonstrate the proof-of-principle for this technology with respect to real-time databases used by MDA in support of BMC2. This SBIR is viewed as having excellentcommercial potential. Naturally, this SBIR and its real-time distributed data management capability it will develop have far reaching implications for the MDA. The technology will allow for performance and management of data for all collaborativeenvironments. This technology will augment an existing technology that already inherently supports parallel and distributed computing over heterogeneous networks. While improving collaborative applications, this technology will also greatly improve thestate of the art with respect to all applications using high volumes of data.While improving support for collaborative applications in many areas addressed by the MDA, this technology also has far reaching applications to commercial industry. The electrical, computer, banking, telecommunications, medical and transportationindustries will benefit from this advancement in technology. RAM Laboratories can apply this technology to the commercial arena using its WarpIV Simulation Engine. The real-time distributed data management capability this technology will possess can beused to improve the search capabilities for a number of applications. This technology would be well place in the enterprise markets for each of these domains. For example, the enterprise simulation market for each of these industries is vast. Theenterprise EDA market is a $20B market with 20% annual growth. The enterprise bioinformatics market is a $200M market with 35% annual growth. We are currently engaged with several Bioinformatics companies to use our base WarpIV technology as a host fortheir applications.