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Shipboard Software Deployment Tools for Complex Heterogeneous Systems

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00024-13-P-4586
Agency Tracking Number: N131-038-0510
Amount: $149,912.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N131-038
Solicitation Number: 2013.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2013
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-06-18
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2015-11-13
Small Business Information
5860 Trinity Parkway Suite 200
Centreville, VA 20120
United States
DUNS: 000000000
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Ron Steele
 Principal Investigator
 (703) 968-8040
 rsteele@adaptivemethods.com
Business Contact
 Judy Barhorst
Title: Director of Contracts
Phone: (703) 968-6110
Email: jbarhorst@adaptivemethods.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Navy tactical software, such as the AN/SQQ89A (V)15 surface ASW environment, requires hundreds of interacting software components deployed across a heterogeneous set of compute platforms and communication devices. Navy sonar operators tasked to perform maintenance often do not have the technical expertise with multiple operating systems and hardware devices deployed on the platform. Detailed Software Version Description (SVD) documents are necessary to ensure that an operator with limited expertise can perform the complex job of reinstallation and maintenance. This proposal seeks to design a software installation and maintenance toolkit that greatly reduces the effort, knowledge, and time required for these activities. The toolkit will automate nearly every activity required for system installation and maintenance. Of particular node is removing the requirement that shipboard personal be required to edit configuration files and input data on a command line as both of these activities are error prone and can be confusing. A significant part of the tool design will be aimed at the system integrator to enable efficient packaging of the deployed systems and for deployment testing prior to package dissemination.

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