MULTI-MEDIA DATABASE MANAGMENT FOR NAVY COMMAND AND CONTROL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

THE NEED FOR SOPHISTICATED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT IN NAVY COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS CONTINUES TO GROW. HOWEVER, CONVENTIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES ARE NOT CURRENTLY MEETING THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF NAVY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, WHICH REQUIRE EXTENDED CAPABILITIES FOR HANDLING UNCONVENTIONAL DATA FORMATS AND TEMPORAL INFORMATION. IN THIS PROPOSAL, AQUIDNECK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (AMA) DESCRIBES AN APPROACH TO ESTABLISHING A HYPERMEDIA DOCUMENT VIEW OF NAVY COMMAND AND CONTROL INFORMATION AND ESTABLISHES PLANS FOR DEVELOPING MODELS TO ANALYZE ITS FEASIBILITY. AMA PROPOSES TO INVESTIGATE STATE OF THE ART WORK IN HYPERMEDIA AND INNOVATIONS IN MEDIAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGY AND ACCESS TECHNIQUES. USING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE COMMERCIAL HYPERTEXT/HYPERMEDIA APPLICATIONS, AMA WILL CONSTRUCT A DATABASE MODEL AND BUILD A PROTOTYPE DBMS. AMA WILL THEN DEVELOP AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR A MULTI-MEDIA DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WHICH WILL PROVIDE NAVY COMMAND AND CONTROL DECISION MAKERS WITH A FLEXIBLE, POWERFUL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WHICH SATISFIES THEIR UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS.