MODIFICATION
A -- Fuselet Production Environment
- Notice Date
- 8/18/2004
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, NY, 13441-4514
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-BAA-03-08-IFKA
- Point of Contact
- Arnold Kloven, Contracting Officer, Phone (315) 330-4767, Fax (315) 330-8082,
- E-Mail Address
-
klovenj@rl.af.mil
- Description
- The purpose of this modification is to redirect the focus area of this solicitation. Previously, the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome Research Site, was soliciting white papers under this announcement for a Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) fuselet production environment. Due to a shift in fuselet research and development priorities, a new emphasis will be placed upon innovative technologies supporting autonomic fuselet composition and execution. This rather broadly scoped topic is further broken down into the following focus areas: FY05: Fuselet Business Logic Development; FY06: Semantic and Syntactic Convergence of Logic Specifications; FY07: Fuselet Accreditation and Enforcement. Specifically for FY05, AFRL is soliciting white papers in the focus area of fuselet business logic development, as described below. More detailed descriptions of the other focus areas will be provided at a later date. Fuselet business logic development deals with the ability to: (a) capture by way of specification the needs of information consumers in terms of the manipulation functions required of fuselets to satisfy those needs, (b) develop executable fuselet workflow models to enact the manipulation functions specified, and (c) provide feedback mechanisms so that fuselet workflow models and their execution can be continually assessed for their ability to sustain and improve the satisfaction of information consumer needs. Fuselets will be required to be JBI Common Client Application Programming Interface (CAPI) compliant [reference the JBI web site at http://www.if.afrl.af.mil/tech/programs/jbi/] and consistent with current fuselet management services concepts [reference the fuselet website at http://www.fuselet.org]. The key to the success of the fuselet concept depends on the value of the information fuselets deliver to their customer (e.g., joint and coalition forces). In order to achieve maximum value, a process and supporting infrastructure are needed to support the continuous improvement of the value of the information fuselets produce. To ensure fuselets add significant and sustainable information value to joint and coalition forces, a customer-value-driven and performance-oriented process for developing, deploying, evaluating and improving fuselets is required. This process begins with an assessment of the customer's information problems and needs [reference the fuselet website, section 5 of the draft Concept of Operations for JBI Fuselets]. Assessing the relevance and value of a particular piece of information to the operational context of an information consumer is not easily done in an automated fashion. Autonomous or semi-automated methods and tools are needed for the creation and composition of manipulation logic based upon expressed or discovered information needs. Manipulation algorithms for the production of information that is tailored to consumer needs might be developed based on observing the behavioral patterns of both information producers and consumers. In the development of fuselet workflow models and manipulation functions, care must be given to prevent the production of trivial, irrelevant, redundant, or inaccurate information (pollution of the information space). In order to assess the characteristics of information consumers, producers, and the effectiveness of the fuselet runtime environment (workflow engine), mechanisms for process instrumentation, performance metrics analysis and reporting, and event notification will be needed to provide feedback to information management stakeholders on changing consumer needs, changes in information sources, and the ability of a collective body of fuselets to optimally serve one or more communities of interest. AFRL's reference implementation of the JBI (software and documentation) will be available as Government Furnished Property in the event of a contract award, and topic solutions developed under this BAA should be interoperable and/or compatible with this reference implementation. There are no other changes to the announcement.
- Record
- SN00646407-W 20040820/040818212229 (fbodaily.com)
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