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Knowledge-based Access and Data Integration (KADI)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8750-08-C-0157
Agency Tracking Number: F081-023-0113
Amount: $99,789.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF081-023
Solicitation Number: 2008.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-04-23
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-04-23
Small Business Information
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
DUNS: 115243701
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Joseph Gorman
 Principal Software Engineer
 (617) 491-3474
 jgorman@cra.com
Business Contact
 Jennifer Barron
Title: Director Contracts
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: jbarron@cra.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The array of rapidly-improving sensors onboard combat aircraft shows great potential to enhance the current situational awareness capabilities of the United States Air Force. Such non-traditional sensors collect a wide and diverse range of data that can offer a more accurate and comprehensive Common Operational Picture of the battlespace when fused with conventional ISR collection capabilities. At present, much of the utility and timeliness of this data is lost due to separation and stove piping of these systems such that fusion with conventional ISR systems can only be performed with human intervention. The Department of Defence’s Global Information Grid (GIG) will need to provide shared situation awareness for Full-spectrum Dominance of the battlespace by the warfighter by establishing machine-to-machine interfaces to facilitate the automated discovery, understanding, use, and sharing of the information and services accessible via the GIG. We are pleased to offer Knowledge-based Access and Data Integration (KADI), a Service Oriented Architecture framework that consumes data from disparate and heterogeneous sensor sources and combines it with semantic classification and retrieval techniques to provide a rich, remotely accessible information environment that is responsive to warfighter needs.

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