DOGWOOD LOGIC, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF211-CSO1

Description

US Joint forces are advancing toward a future where a variety of manned and unmanned systems will share the same battlespace.  Crucial to our strategic advantage is the ability for mixed teams of assets to seamlessly form an intelligent system on-the-fly: establishing trust, coordinating actions, sharing and fusing senor data, and communicating events.  Operated by different communities, these assets may have different authentication credentials, communicate with different data protocols, and have changing information consumption needs during the mission – problems that that are difficult to solve during up-front system design and extremely challenging to address during insertion of new technologies into an existing system.  Advancements from the commercial secure Web can help solve this problem.  dLinc’s Secure Linked Data software leverages these interoperable Web 3.0 standards to form a zero-trust cloud collaboration platform for healthcare and defense customers.  dLinc proposes to adapt this SecureLD platform for operation by USAF intelligent systems – to establish trust and connect operational data among teams of mixed assets in the field, via a framework that can automatically accommodate and translate information from evolving technologies.