Navy Signs $5.74 Million Software Contract With USC-Led Team; System Will Support All Marine Corps Tactical Aircraft, Including New Lockheed JSF.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003 The Office of Naval Research The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), headquartered in Arlington, Virginia (Ballston), is the office within the U.S. Department of the Navy that coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the U.S. will spend $5.74 million to expand the use of software for coordinating air operations and maintenance, developed by the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission and Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of Methodist Episcopal Church, founded and renamed 1873, opened 1875 through a gift from Cornelius Vanderbilt. Until 1914 it operated under the auspices of the Methodist Church. , to the Marine Corps' entire lineup of tactical aircraft. "The software helps the military coordinate the many activities involved in preparing for combat, and combat itself, in ways that reduce risk, increase likelihood of mission success, and best support commander's intent A concise expression of the purpose of the operation and the desired end state that serves as the initial impetus for the planning process. It may also include the commander's assessmentof the adversary commander's intent and an assessment of where and how much risk is acceptable during ," said Robert Neches of the University of Southern California School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute, prime contractor for the system. ISI ISI International Sensitivity Index, see there collaborated with Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) and others to create the system, which performs in minutes complex scheduling functions that used to require many hours of work by highly trained officers. It has been evaluated in operational use by squadrons of Harrier jets, both land- and carrier-based, since August 2002, including units participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The new three-year contract, which went into effect July 7, 2003, will create versions of the system tailored to all aircraft types used by the Marine Corps' 90 tactical air squadrons, and will elevate its use up the command chain by adding tools for commanders of Air Combat Elements within Marine Expeditionary Brigades. The contract includes an agreement to supply versions of the system to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company for use in demonstrations of the company's "Autonomic Logistics Information System" (ALIS ALIS Alberta Learning Information Service ALIS Alternate Lighting of Surface Method (Fujitsu and Hitachi plasma displays) ALIS Access Lines in Service (telecommunications) ) being developed to support the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF (JavaServerFaces) A standard framework of components for building rich user interfaces for Java applications. JavaServer Faces run on the server, but are displayed on the client. JSF - JavaServer Faces ) aircraft. More than $3.3 million of the contract funding will go to USC/ISI, with the rest distributed among Vanderbilt/ISIS and other contractors including IDEA Services, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control of Oakland, MD and Lloyd Lamont Design, Inc. (LLD LLD abbr. Latin Legum Doctor (Doctor of Laws) LLD Doctor of Laws [Latin Legum Doctor] Noun 1. ), of Herndon, VA. The "Comprehensive Analytic Real-Time Execution for Joint Operations" effort funded under this contract integrates "Autonomous Negotiating Teamware" (ANT) and intelligent information management technology previously developed for the Harrier attack squadrons. ANT uses a metaphor of human negotiation that rapidly explores tradeoffs and reformulates requirements to balance the considerations of many different stakeholders. Repeated tests of the ANT system by Marine Aircraft Group 13, both at its headquarters in Yuma, AZ, and deployed aboard carriers, led to highly positive evaluations by senior officers. "This follow-on contract is a great vote of confidence in our system," said Neches, who is a division director at ISI and also an associate professor in the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. School of Engineering department of computer science. "We believe it will have civilian applications as well." "The USC School of Engineering developed tools for national defense during the Cold War and is meeting current security challenges," said USC Dean of Engineering C.L. Max Nikias. --30--MW/
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Jeremy Morgan, 310-458-1224
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KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE HARDWARE GOVERNMENT AEROSPACE/DEFENSE
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SOURCE: USC School of Engineering
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