IMPRESS: Technology Focus Areas

• Dynamic Systems Technology: Technologies for managing information in dynamically changing and highly uncertain mobile environments. The end goal is to enable command and tactical element dynamic interoperability with multiple Community of Interest (COI) systems to reliably deliver new information never available before to the tactical edge.
• Quality of Service: Technologies for dynamic reconfiguration and interoperation across heterogeneous Infospace communities. Enabling reliable information delivery; enhancing the QoS for the Global Information Grid (GIG).
• Enterprise Technology: Technologies for integrating heterogeneous information systems. Filling technology voids in information management and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) for DoD net-centric enterprises services.
• Policy Management: Technologies for innovative concepts for expressing, managing, mediating and enforcing IM policy-based constraints on dissemination, resource usage, authorization, etc.
• Quality of Information: Technologies for distinguishing decision-quality information from potentially inaccurate, or even conflicting, pieces of information collected from multiple sources.
• Decision Support Technology & Tools: Technologies for understanding the battlespace, anticipating and shaping the future battlespace and evaluating courses of action. Support Commander's Predictive Environment (CPE) initiatives.
• Semantic Technology: Technologies for the applicability of semantic technology to improve interoperability across different domains such as Strategic, Operational, and Tactical.
• Information Management Infrastructure Pub/Sub/Query/ Archive: Innovative concepts for fulfilling consumer needs rather than producer preferences. Increase the efficiency, scalability, and generality of information management services.
• Communities of Interest: Mechanisms for inter-federate sharing, facilitating security and service requirements, managing and enforcing operational requirements.
• Information Management Security: Infospace concept exploration and development across secure COI boundaries. Providing security architectures. Incorporating Cyberspace sciences for self-healing, survivable and mutable information infrastructures.
• Information Transformation and Collaboration Technology: Controlled information management and transformation service execution and orchestrated workflow/collaboration services to support enterprise objectives and operational requirements, and to improve warfighter effectiveness through the provisioning of optimized workflow services and prioritized decision quality information.
• End User Applications, Demos, And Experiments: Application of Information Management technology to demonstrate its viability and value in operationally relevant scenarios. Develop and apply phased approach for technology insertion. Adapt, convert and create applications and processes. Incorporate operational requirements and lessons learned into research. Facilitate transition opportunities via collaboration with industry partners.