N121-103 TITLE: Simple Profiler for Official Information Exchange

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems, Human Systems

ACQUISITION PROGRAM: Navy Messaging System, ACT IVM

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OBJECTIVE: The proposal is to develop software that would accept military messages in standard formats, such as ACP-123, ACP-128, or USMTF, via SMTP or as an XML or plain text file (.txt), and apply a set of profiles to the messages so as to make informed choices about how to forward disseminate each message to those who want to receive that type of information. Profiles must be configurable and must afford selection based on criteria such as message precedence, classification and other specific attributes in addition to conducting a keyword search of the message body, originator and destination addressees and subject.

DESCRIPTION: Navy activities receive thousands of Organizational messages daily. The administrative burden of human intervention to review that quantity of messages manually and make decisions about who needs to see which type of message based on content or other message attributes is not practical. Consequently this process must be automated, and profiling software is able to provide this function. The profiler software must be designed using an open standard architecture concept to accommodate multiple Operating Systems, with the ultimate goal of platform independence. Also the software should have no dependency on other commercially licensed software, but instead must be self-contained and run independently. The software must provide the administrator with the capability of tailoring the profiles based on such factors as organizational size, volume of incoming/outgoing messages, and military missions. The profiler software must afford users the flexibility to create new profiles based on current situation and ability to modify existing profiles as needed.

PHASE I: Develop an innovative profiler software architecture that leads to initial development of a profiler prototype that can be integrated into the Navy Messaging System (NMS). Consideration should be given to automated routing and distribution mechanism, the Department of Defense and Navy message standardization, commercial e-mail profile standardization, and the ability to load and run on various Operating Systems. The prototype should be able to be integrated into the Navy Messaging System and can optimally/automatically route and distribute messages with no human intervention during run-time. System Administration, as well as user tasks of creating, editing and removing profiles pertinent to their organization, should be the only human intervention required. The demonstration should include ability to successful route and distribute messages as desired based on the criteria configured in the profiles. The technology will be integrated as Navy's enterprise solution and be a component of business operation to support unique military messaging applications.

PHASE II: The Profiler prototype will be expanded to provide user interface and system administration capability as web-services that allow users to access these services from anywhere. The automation capability includes warnings and alerts of status of critical messages - delivery success, delivery failure, receipts and/or non-receipts. Desired capability would include providing such notices via SMTP e-mail, or through web-based user or SysAdmin interfaces, in addition to the local user interface. . Technology should support the Navy's enterprise environment and should be documented in the integration planning.

PHASE III: Upon successful completion of Phase I/II, the Profiler software will be integrated into the Navy Messaging Systems and evaluate the performance for transition. The technology transition plan will be updated and necessary resourcing will be coordinated to ensure sustainment and maintenance will be afforded.

PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL/DUAL-USE APPLICATIONS: This technology promotes greater competition for e-mail profiling capability that is currently dominated by limited commercial vendors at high cost. It also provides ability to tailor the profile based on mission criticality as well as to support unique messaging standards.

REFERENCES:
1. https://www.portal.navy.mil/oix/default.aspx, ALCOM 061/11, Organizational Global Address List.

2. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=55467

KEYWORDS: ACP, Navy Messaging, Defense Message Distribution Systems, DMDS, profile, e-mail

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