Joint Battlespace Infosphere: Information Management Within a C2 Enterprise

Abstract

System interoperability continues to be one of the key challenges facing the DoD as new capability is developed and fielded while maintaining operation with existing legacy systems. The concept of a Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) was first created in 1999 by the US Air Force (USAF) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to address a clear lack of information engineering and interoperability within and among existing, traditionally stove-piped fielded capability. Throughout the ensuing years, the Air Force Research Laboratory has performed research in information management that has further refined the original JBI concepts and has demonstrated how those concepts may be applied to achieve system interoperability. JBI information services allow for mediated, loosely-coupled access to information among systems and system components using a publish and subscribe paradigm. In addition, a query capability is provided for access to archived information. All data exchanged is treated as managed information. Each object published contains associated metadata that is used to broker for information object instances between producers and consumers. The consumers of information provide predicates or constraints over the metadata which are subsequently used to decide what information is appropriate for dissemination to the requesting clients. More recently, DISA has sought to provide an architectural design and implementation of a collection of underlying services that would be available to edge user client applications and systems. These services allow clients to share information intelligently from anywhere within the network environment using a post, discover and pull methodology. These Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) are being developed as a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that uses the latest industry standards such as XML and Web Services.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA463694

Entities

People

  • Michael T. Muccio
  • Robert G. Hillman
  • Ryan W. Mckeel
  • Vaughn T. Combs

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Battlespace
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Consumers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Global Information Grid
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Standards
  • Web Service
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Theoretical Analysis.