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Net-Centric Software Consoritium (Kavi)

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Net-Centric Software Engineering and Technology Consortium

Tomorrow’s Needs, Yesterday’s Technology – DoD’s Architectural Dilemma & a Plan for its Resolution

-- Ray Paul, OSD

Presenter: Krishna M. Kavi Department of Computer Science and Engr. University of North Texas [email protected]


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The University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Dallas and Southern Methodist University, as well as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Metallect are proposing the formation of the Net-Centric Software Technology Consortium (Net-Centric Software Consortium, for short) as an alliance of academic and commercial institutions, as well as federal and state governments, to collectively promote and undertake research, education, technology development, technology transfer, and technological workforce development to enable the nation to transition into the new, net-centric

operations (NCO) paradigm. Net-centric software technology is of strategic significance to national defense and homeland security because the technology holds the promise of revolutionary transformations to 21st century warfare.

Net-Centric Software Consortium


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In this new paradigm, applications are no longer viewed as having a fixed set of capabilities but as a set of services that can be dynamically created from acquired services, verified, and validated in real time in the field without human intervention.These services must be always available, reliable, dependable, fault-tolerant, and meet security requirements.

Unlike other Net-Centric consortia that address standards, policies, or market adaptation strategies, the North Texas Consortium will develop the fundamental research needed for high-quality net-centric software systems.



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Net-Centric Software ConsortiumMembers

Inventing novel software technologies for building next generation network-ready, interoperable, trustworthy service-oriented systems.

And more ...

We invent future


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Net-Centric Software ConsortiumOur Vision

The Net-Centric Software Engineering Technology Consortium will be a premier source of fundamental software research and technology for net-centric systems.By joining forces, the participating academic institutions and high tech companies, the Net-Centric Software Consortium, will greatly enhance the research capabilities of the participants and revolutionize our national research competence.

The Net-Centric Software Consortium, will earn fame in the nation as leading technology innovator, technology incubator, and source for technology commercialization.


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The Consortium will provide competency to enable end users to conceive, create, configure and deploy net-centric systems in real time.

The consortium’s research will address challenges in specification, modeling, analysis, design, implementation, Verification and validation, testing, deployment of net-centric systems.

The consortium will provide coordinated education and training to meet the future software workforce needs of our nation.

It will convert North Texas into a major research region in the nation and attract the best research faculty and students from all over the world and tens of million dollars in research funding.

It will contribute significantly to the economic growth of Texas because numerous high-paying jobs and leading high tech companies will move into North Texas due to the research and technology innovation capacity, and the quality of the technological workforce brought about by the consortium.

Net-Centric Software ConsortiumOur Goals


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• Congressional earmark• DoD: OSD, ARO, AFOSR• To jumpstart and leverage the other funding opportunities

Funding Sources

•Texas Emerging Technology Fund•RCIC•Matching funds•Research superiority funds

•Other regular programs•NSF: I/UCRC

•The industrial members of the Consortium must be paid members•Each university must bring $150K per year in industrial contributions

•DoD: AFRL, ARO, etc.•NASA, and Homeland Security


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Plan and Projected Impact

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Fundamental research

Product development

Commercialization

Improvement

Technology innovation


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Net-Centric Software ConsortiumHow do we differ

• Conventional SE• A virtual center • Independent institution research

• Not focused on net-centricity• Single institution • Defense contractor/ business consultant.

• Focus on net-centric technology innovation & commercialization• N.Texas-based, with track record in research collaboration• Industry as a stakeholder


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Net-Centric Software serves all branches of the United States military, the National Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other U.S. national security agencies, as well as international customers.

Net Centric WarfareBe able to put together a battle plan

utilizing “services” across all military branches

Create dynamic scenario based simulations in real-time

Facilitate policy based Command and Control structure

Need “Unified Command Structure”Tactical -- not just Strategic

Software Programs include civilian applications, command and control systems, integrated communications systems, and networked sensor systems.



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Military services are shifting from platform- to network-centric systems --from independently operating planes, ships and missiles to increasingly complex and diverse integrated computing infrastructures.


Defense contractors are addressing the resulting integration challenge with COTS software and other techniques intended to reduce costs, improve time to market and accommodate subsequent technology shifts.

However, effective integration remains a very difficult challenge, affecting system availability, reliability, security, interoperability, cost and time.

Fundamental Software Engineering research is needed.


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Network-Centric Computing

Interoperability requirement of Network-Centric Computing– When a system is developed, it must be network ready, and can interoperate with existing and future systems in an integrated manner

Observations on present status–Current network-centric interoperability is often interpreted to mean data interoperability, which is quickly translated into the requirement to have XML as the data exchange mechanism-- A far cry from system operational interoperability, which addresses how system can collaborate and cooperate in operations and missions, during run time


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Interoperability at many levels

Files

RPC/Pipe/Shared Memory

Database

DCOM/CORBA/RMI (Distributed Communication Bus)

Middleware Technology

SOA (Loosely Couple Environment)

Ontology / Knowledge Based InteroperabilityWe are here


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Some Work Is Underway• Recent innovations from DoD funded projects such as

DoD Architecture Framework Global Information Grid Enterprise Systems (GIG) UML and extensions

are valuable

And yet they are not sufficient for modern agile war-fighting, and leave significant unmet needs



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Other Related Projects

DARPA managed related programs usingIntelligent Agents and Agent Markup Languages


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How Agents Help:Breaking down the stovepipes

• Provide tools to help the run-time coupling of decision-making and analysis tools with appropriate data and sensing resources

• Development is focused on (shared) information needs

SensorsDatabases

Models

Decision MakersSystem Designers

Analysts

Information Agents


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Target Identification and Attack

INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLESPACE

INDICATIONS & WARNING

SURVEILLANCE & SENSORS

TARGET/STRIKE PLANNING

ATTACK OPERATIONS

EXISTING LEGACY & EVOLVING SYSTEMS

MILITARY-SPECIFIC TASKS

Information Agents

Search Collate Identify Update Monitor AGENT CAPABILITIES

Interoperability Grid

Source Info Capability Specs Input Specs Status InfoResource Data


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More Research Is Needed

• Agent research currently limited to integrating data• Analysis techniques are limited

• Need to expand on agent technologies• Agents as service providers• Agents to assure security, reliability, performance• Need formalisms and tools to build such systems



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Key Propositions per Paul

• Network Centricity poses fundamentally new software engineering requirements on DoD systems

• Existing approaches (methods, tools, etc.) are not sufficient to the task, leaving some gaping holes

• Extension of existing approaches is fundamentally incorrect, since it adds yet another ‘patch up’, and increases interoperability complexity,

which is one of the key problems that needs to be addressed makes existing complex systems more so, making it even more difficult

to understand & use them

• Any new software engineering approach must lay primary emphasis on unique characteristics of Network

Centricity be discriminating in deciding what to include in the approach;

critical if the goal is to achieve any measure of “analyzability”


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What is needed per Ray Paul

A new software engineering methodologies that permits dynamic publication, discovery, composition of serviceswith an ability to analyze reliability, trust, performance, etc.

• Agile and adaptive acquisition• Agile war-fighting with dynamic changing tactics• Dynamic system architecture composed at runtime• Dynamic system reconfiguration or re-composition at runtime even

during war-fighting• Rapid but reliable system engineering• High assurance for C2 applications• Dynamic and real-time system interoperability between two systems not

knowing each other before


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Current Status

1. The academic partners have signed MoUsKey: every projects will involve at least 2 institutionsseed funding from the universities

2. Currently finalizing terms for defining membership and governance structure to include industrial membersPaid membership and privilegesAdvisory board (paid members)Executive board and executive director

3. Core competencies and capabilities of members


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Consortium Expertise

I. Agent Oriented Software Engineering (Krishna Kavi, UNT, Dave Kung, UTA, Eric Wong, UTD, Jeff Tian, SMU)

II. Automated Recovery and Continuous Monitoring

(Krishna Kavi, UNT, Dave Kung, UTA, Yu (Jeff) Lei, UTA)

III. Automated System Synthesis and Adaptation (I-Ling Yen, Farokh Bastani, Gopal Gupta, UTD; Robert Brazile, UNT)

IV. Net-Centric Operations (Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon)

V. Real-time Systems and Reconfigurable Systems (Krishna Kavi, Philip Sweany, UNT; I-Ling Yen, Farokh Bastani, UTD)


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Benefits

To academic institutionsFunding to support basic and applied researchSupport for student stipends, fellowships and

internshipsprojects and theses

Industry driven research Joint research with industry (DoD or other)Classified research with aid from industrial

membersTechnology transfer

New educational and training programs


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Benefits

To industrial concernsAccess to faculty researchAccess to students as interns and employeesHelp with research, assessment and critique Joint research with universities (DoD or

other)Influence research directionsTechnology transfer

Help with training and education of employees


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Other Efforts

Stanford+Berkley++ NSF Cyber Security Centermodels and analysis for trustworthy systems

Rutgers -- Discolabmiddleware for seamless integration of distributed systems

CMU -- Highly Dependable Systemstechnologies, models, analyses

University College Of London ++ SENSORIA(Software engineering for service-oriented

overlay computers)


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