MODUS OPERANDI, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N152-122

Description

Modus Operandi proposes an innovative Semantically Enhanced Analytic Transportation Exploitation Tool (SEATET) for In-Transit Visibility (ITV) accessible via mobile devices. SEATET will provide a state of the art logistics ITV capability that better integrates various kinds of data and provides cargo transport situational awareness and decision support to Naval Lifts of Opportunity (LOOP) planners. SEATET identifies patterns of interest that inform and improve the ITV of goods managed in the existing TET system for urgent cargo logistics. SEATET captures important metadata in ontology models that provide a means to integrate and query across multiple legacy logistics systems via a common data model, plus provide outreach to other existing data sources currently unavailable to TET (weather data, equipment data, mission data, etc.). SEATETs rules-engine automates several of the current processes within TET, reducing errors, improving communication capabilities among users, and providing alerts regarding risks or impacts to the cargo transport. SEATET builds upon Modus Operandis proven MOVIA analytics platform, which will be enhanced to handle large-scale logistics scenarios and will also require R&D around domain-specific ontology models for particular logistics applications. Using APIs, SEATET provides connectivity other legacy software tools connecting Naval data across the enterprise.