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Reconfiguration of Component Level Control Network Automation Systems

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
53722 		Program Year/Program:
2002 / STTR
Agency Tracking Number:
N013-0058 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Adept Systems, Inc.
21271 Waycross Drive Boca Raton, FL 33428
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2002
Title: Reconfiguration of Component Level Control Network Automation Systems
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N00014-02-C-0328
Award Amount: $358,229.00
 

Abstract:

"This project will develop and implement in embedded hardware the capability needed to configure pre hit, a component level automation infrastructure.This approach optimizes survivability using models of damage or casualty scenarios. This capability willbe demonstrated in a laboratory hardware in the loop simulation. This project leverages the results of several other ongoing research efforts all focused around survivable component level systems based on the ANSI 709.1 protocol.This work further extendsthe dependable topology with network fragment healing concepts.BENEFITS: This project brings together three important enabling technologies; model based reasoning, network fragment healing, and high speed component level embedded distributed processing, toproduce the unprecedented capability, that is, to predict and configure "pre-hit" a component level automation infrastructure to minimize vulnerability and maximize survivability from real time threat and damage information. This approach provides thepotential for decreased latencies in healing and better fight through capability for highly automated (low manned) systems. Moreover, the demonstrated cost effectiveness of the dependable topology with NFH makes it affordable and therefore a primecandidate for future Naval automation ship infrastructure. This project will produce, the first hardware in the loop embedded system capable of pre-hit reconfiguration of a component level network. This will provide the crucial scalable infra-structureneeded for advanced survivable component level networks.The principle military application will be the component level automation infra-structure on board a Naval platform.There are three major immediate commercial opportunities that will be enabled by this project: 1) Load balanced router for optimized component level networks. 2) Combined router/IP gateway with sophisticated routing algorithms. 3) Resilient survivableautomation system for critical services using model based reasoning for state estimation and reconfiguration."

Principal Investigator:

Samuel M. Smith
President
8012267607
smithsm@adeptsystemsinc.com

Business Contact:

Samuel M. Smith
President
8012267607
smithsm@adeptsystemsinc.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Adept Systems, Inc.
360 W. 920 N. Orem, UT 84057

EIN/Tax ID: 650537713
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
Research Institution Information:
Johns Hopkins Apl
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723
Contact: David V. Kalbaugh
RI Type: Nonprofit college or university