SONALYSTS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-076

Description

The Navy is seeking solutions that enable warfighters to share tribal knowledge as efficiently as possible. Sonalysts solution, the Peer-to-Peer Information and Education Resource (PIER), will increase warfighter effectiveness by providing sailors with the opportunity to learn from each other via a simple app-like authoring tool. PIER will allow the Navy to increase the distribution of tacit knowledge resident throughout the fleet and thereby capitalize on the collective intelligence of its men and women. PIER will be a highly usable wizard-like authoring system that will allow Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to quickly, efficiently, and effectively develop a variety of performance supports. The PIER architecture will be designed to function on a range of traditional and mobile computing platforms. Robust design patterns will allow SMEs to document their lessons learned via specified knowledge-transfer documents. The PIER system will help SMEs to identify an appropriate job aid and then lead the SME through a documentation process. Bootstrapping questions and an analysis of the content will be used to define metadata tags and the information product will be placed in a temporary local data store. The chain of command can use vetting tools to assess the product and authorize its release.