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Formalizing Accommodation of Transitory Path Intrinsic Characteristics

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
98369 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N101-027-0337 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
NAVY 10-027 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Analysis, Integration and Design
2905 Bush Drive Melbourne, FL -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Formalizing Accommodation of Transitory Path Intrinsic Characteristics
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N68335-10-C-0293
Award Amount: $79,973.00
 

Abstract:

Today's resource connection technologies, mechanisms, and provisioning implemented in test station architectures are deficient in commonality that offers transparency in application functionality aspects. The breadth of path determination hardware and controlling software available for incorporation in test stations is often unique, proprietary, and available only through sole suppliers. Although the architectural flexibility obtained using these various manifestations can provide robust functionality, it also creates barriers when inevitable obsolescence is confronted. Exacerbating the hardware commonality problems is a distinct lack of software models, technologies, or abstractions enabled to alleviate incompatibilities encountered when approaching obsolescence mitigation. Another observation concerning path connection software found in the majority, if not all, automatic test equipment is that it generalizes connections as simply committing connection or releasing connection commitment. Current path connection software technologies do not demand any technical specification of the connection characteristics. Dealing with connection facilities in this oversimplified manner essentially demands applications adhering to it imply knowledge of how to use facilities needed without stating what is needed. Predictably when obsolescence occurs the applications must be altered to accommodate the replacement facility's interaction methodologies. This proposal addresses feasibility of alleviating these and other connection issues incurred in existing test station implementations.

Principal Investigator:

Tim Winquist
Chief Technical Officer
3212539919
twinquist@aidinc-usa.com

Business Contact:

Hugh Pritchett
Chief Executive officer
3212539919
hpritchett@aidinc-usa.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Analysis, Integration and Design
1600 Sarno Rd. Suite #208 Melbourne, FL 32935

EIN/Tax ID: 201200550
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No