Navy SBIR Award

Government POC
Mr. Lawrence Forte
Email: lawrence.forte@navy.mil
Phone: (240)925-4939
Fax: 

 

Principal Investigator
Mr. Mike Martinez
Email: martinez_m@ociweb.com
Phone: (314)579-0066
Fax: (314)579-0065

Corporate Official
Mr. Malcolm Spence
Email: spence_m@ociweb.com
Phone: (314)590-0206
Fax: (314)579-0065

Firm
Object Computing Inc.
12140 Woodcrest Executive Drive
Suite 250
St. Louis, Missouri 63141-5099
http://www.ociweb.com

 

Contract #

N68335-10-C-0043 

Topic

N08-116 

Solicitation

08.2 

SYSCOM

NAVAIR 

Award Amount

749438.00 

Phase

II 

Program

Navy SBIR 

Start / End Date

02/18/2010 - 08/18/2011 

FY Reported

2010 

Title

Open Data Distribution Service (DDS) for use in a real time simulation laboratory environment 

Abstract

Phase II OpenDDS work will include development of an SDK, runtime support, implementation enhancements, and performance characterization. The software development kit (SDK) will consist of an Eclipse based graphical modeling tool. This capture tool will be used to define the desired middleware structures and characteristics in terms of an OpenDDS UML Profile. The model will then be used to generate source code and build support in the C++ language. Additional runtime support will be provided by the development of a packet analyzer plugin to the existing Open Source Wireshark packet capture and viewing tool. Higher level analysis will be provided by development of a data monitor that can provide insight into the operation of the middleware service itself. The existing OpenDDS implementation will be enhanced with features including full specification compliance and transport implementation improvements. Research will be conducted to develop a prioritized list of features to implement. OpenDDS performance will be characterized at the beginning of the project and as formal releases are made to the code base. The testbench developed during Phase I will be used to perform tests under simulation domain specific conditions. Message latency and jitter will be the information gathered to define performance.  

Benefit

The DOD will obtain a set of tools and a cross platform technology implementation (modeling and code generation) with zero licensing fees which allows the development of large scale, real time, standards based infrastructure in a highly productive manner. Savings of up $100M over ten years could accrue to the Navy with a widespread use of this technology. Many industries that use extensive data monitoring in time critical circumstances can use this technology; traffic management, factory process control, financial market data systems, satellite management, mass tranist control, predictive maintainance systems, electrical power distribution systems (SmartGrid)and other utilities.  

Taxonomy

 

Keywords

Model Driven Architecture, Open Source, MDA, code generation tools, OMG standard, Data Distribution Service, real-time middleware, DDS