Evaluating the Effectiveness of using a COTS solution for achieving the Navy's Back-End Data Lake and Microservices (BEDLAM) strategy for Battle Manag

We propose a study to assess the feasibility and efficacy of using a COTS solution to provide data level Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in an integrated Battle Management Aid data lake to expose the data available to developers for reuse while maintaining proper security boundaries for the software applications to protect intellectual property rights of all developers. Currently, the government has an urgent and expensive need to enhance developer collaboration in mixed government and non-government-controlled environments.  As such, our analysis intends to assess the technical feasibility of sharing across BMA’s and applications in near-real time. This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal presents our research plan to determine future courses of action and best practices to enhance Back End Data Lake and Microservices (BEDLAM) strategy for Battle Management Aid development.