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Net-Centric Software Engineering and
Technology Consortium
Presenter: Krishna M. Kavi
Department of Computer Science and Engr.
University of North Texas
kavi@cse.unt.edu
Tomorrow’s Needs, Yesterday’s Technology –
DoD’s Architectural Dilemma & a Plan for its Resolution
-- Ray Paul, OSD
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Net-Centric Software Consortium
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.
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Net-Centric Software Consortium
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 Consortium
Members
We invent future
And more ...
Inventing novel software technologies for building next generation network-
ready, interoperable, trustworthy service-oriented systems.
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Our 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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Our Goals
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.
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Funding Sources
• Congressional earmark
• DoD: OSD, ARO, AFOSR
• To jumpstart and leverage the other funding opportunities
•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
Improvement
Commercialization
Product development
Technology innovation
Fundamental research
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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How do we differ
• Focus on net-centric technology
innovation & commercialization
• N.Texas-based, with track record in
research collaboration
• Industry as a stakeholder
• Not focused on net- • Conventional SE
centricity • A virtual center
• Single institution • Independent institution
• Defense contractor/ research
business consultant.
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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.
Software Programs include civilian applications, command and control
systems, integrated communications systems, and networked sensor
systems.
Net Centric Warfare
Be 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
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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
Ontology / Knowledge
We are here Based Interoperability
SOA (Loosely Couple
Environment)
DCOM/CORBA/RMI (Distributed
Communication Bus)
Middleware Technology
Database
RPC/Pipe/Shared Memory
Files
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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
Fundamental Software Engineering research is needed.
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Other Related Projects
DARPA managed related programs using
Intelligent Agents and Agent Markup Languages
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How Agents Help:Breaking down the
stovepipes
Decision Makers
System Designers
• Provide tools to help Analysts
the run-time coupling
of decision-making
and analysis tools
with appropriate data
and sensing Information Agents
resources
• Development is
focused on (shared)
information needs
Sensors
Databases
Models
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Information Agents
MILITARY-
SPECIFIC Target Identification and Attack
TASKS
AGENT
CAPABILITIES Search Collate Identify Update Monitor
Source Info Resource Data Capability Specs Input Specs Status Info
Interoperability Grid
EXISTING INDICATIONS & SURVEILLANCE TARGET/STRIKE ATTACK
INTELLIGENCE & SENSORS
LEGACY & PREPARATION WARNING PLANNING OPERATIONS
EVOLVING OF THE
BATTLESPACE
SYSTEMS
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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
Fundamental Software Engineering research is needed.
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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 services
with 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 MoUs
Key: every projects will involve at least 2 institutions
seed funding from the universities
2. Currently finalizing terms for defining membership and governance
structure to include industrial members
Paid membership and privileges
Advisory 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 institutions
Funding to support basic and applied research
Support for student stipends, fellowships and internships
projects and theses
Industry driven research
Joint research with industry (DoD or other)
Classified research with aid from industrial members
Technology transfer
New educational and training programs
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Benefits
To industrial concerns
Access to faculty research
Access to students as interns and employees
Help with research, assessment and critique
Joint research with universities (DoD or other)
Influence research directions
Technology transfer
Help with training and education of employees
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Other Efforts
University College Of London ++ SENSORIA
(Software engineering for service-oriented
overlay computers)
Stanford+Berkley++ NSF Cyber Security Center
models and analysis for trustworthy systems
Rutgers -- Discolab
middleware for seamless integration of distributed systems
CMU -- Highly Dependable Systems
technologies, models, analyses
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