SBIR/STTR Award attributes
There are many challenges associated with delivering new capabilities to a Naval Combatants. Because Combat Systems can apply lethal effects, ensuring the interoperability of the components and applications that comprise Naval combat systems such as AEGIS is a critical and essential task. Introducing a new capability or updating a single subsystem requires testing and certification of the subsystem as well as the system as a whole. This alone is expensive and time consuming. But, the reality is that by adding or updating one subsystem, other subsystems must also be updated. This additional activity only increases the cost and time it takes to deliver capabilities to the warfighter. SimVentions offers to define a new methodology, based on the FACE Technical Standard and software tools, to move AEGIS interface and data model specifications forward by specifying semantic representations, allow interoperability issues to be discovered earlier, and promote reuse by isolating code changes within the architecture. This will facilitate the introduction of new capability while allowing legacy subsystems to operate without change and migrate forward to FACE conformance as their Program allows. All of this will combine to reduce the effort and cost associated with developing, integrating, testing, and certifying tactical software.
