Transitioning the DSAP infrastructure to a web service environment
Robert M. McGraw, Craig N. Lammers · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
RAM Laboratories and AFRL are developing a software infrastructure to provide a Dynamic Situation Assessment and Prediction (DSAP) capability through the use of an embedded simulation infrastructure that can be linked to real-time Command, Control, Communications, and Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) sensors and systems and Command and Control (C2) activities. The resulting capabilities will allow Commanders to evaluate and analyze Courses of Action and potential alternatives through real-time and faster-than-real-time simulation via executing multiple plans simultaneously across a computing grid. In order to support users in a distributed C2 operational capacity, the DSAP infrastructure is being web-enabled to support net-centric services and common data formats and specifications that will allow it to support users on the Global Information Grid. This paper reviews DSAP and its underlying Multiple Replication Framework architecture and discusses steps that must be taken to play in a Service-Oriented Architecture.