MODUS OPERANDI, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: MDA14-010

Description

Legacy database systems often exhibit the feature of being stove piped and difficult to integrate over time. This is because they were often developed for ad hoc purposes for specific groups, thus their data models and inherent structure is not always well understood except by a select few people who designed and built the database. This means data retrieval using these legacy systems is a challenge, particularly when the system users are not intimate with specific domains, but are attempting to integrate information across several domains to answer difficult questions. The problem is exacerbated when the data sources become extremely large (terabyte and larger). Modus Operandi proposes the BMDS Analytic Semantic System (BASS) to assist simulation engineers and data analysts with advanced integration and analysis of data across disparate databases. BASS utilizes scalable cloud-based semantics that provide a complex metadata model (as a set of layered ontologies) that can exist above the legacy data systems and provide a sophisticated means for querying against numerous databases from a single user end point. Approved for Public Release 14-MDA-8047 (14 Nov 14)