This paper sets out the case that technical ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) System Interoperability is a sub-set of more general Open and Modular Information System design; both address the same architectural issues associated with layers, templates, interface specification, profiles, data models, process control and assurance.
The paper develops a set of frameworks and models to enable those ISR specialists concerned with interoperability to engage with those concerned with open and modular information system infrastructures.
KEYWORDS: Databases, Data processing, Received signal strength, Data storage, Analytical research, Visualization, Information technology, Data modeling, Sensors, Web services
The Management of Information Processing Services (MIPS) project has two main objectives; the notification to
analysts of the arrival of relevant new information and the automatic processing of the new information. Within these
objectives a number of significant challenges were addressed. To achieve the first objective, the team had to demonstrate
the capability for specific analysts to be “tipped-off” in real-time that textual reports and sensor-data have been received
that are relevant to their analytical tasks, including the possibility that such reports have been made available by other
nations. In the case of the second objective, the team had to demonstrate the capability for the infrastructure to
automatically initiate processing of input data as it arrives, consistent with satisfying the analytical goals of teams of
analysts, in as an efficient a manner as possible (including the case where data is made available by more than one
nation). Using the Information Fabric middleware developed as part of the International Technology Alliance (ITA)
research program, the team created a service based information processing infrastructure to achieve the objectives and
challenges set by the customer. The infrastructure allows existing software to be wrapped as a service and/or specially
written services to be integrated with each other as well as with other ITA technologies such as the Controlled English
(CE) Store or the Gaian Database. This paper will identify the difficulties in designing and implementing the MIPS
infrastructure together with describing its architecture and illustrating its use with a worked example use case.
Our previous work has explored the application of enterprise middleware techniques at the edge of the network to
address the challenges of delivering complex sensor network solutions over heterogeneous communications
infrastructures. In this paper, we develop this approach further into a practicable, semantically rich, model-based design
and analysis approach that considers the sensor network and its contained services as a service-oriented architecture. The
proposed model enables a systematic approach to service composition, analysis (using domain-specific techniques), and
deployment. It also enables cross intelligence domain integration to simplify intelligence gathering, allowing users to
express queries in structured natural language (Controlled English).
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