Science and Technology Broad Agency Announcement

Seapower 21 / seatrial concept experimentation software technologies: Software Environments and Software Agents to support dynamic and adaptive exchange of information and control among distributed sensors, sensor systems, tactical and staff level commands. Software tools and techniques to promote distributed collaborative military staff coordination. Semantic web tools and techniques applied to military command and control environments. Applications of artificial intelligence to software for military command and control systems. Tools and techniques to negotiate dynamic Quality of Service between software applications and network transport mechanisms. Processes, tools, and techniques for establishing performance and effectiveness baselines in deployed or simulated military environments and comparing these to the performance and effectiveness of prototypes of notional alternative systems. See attached file.