Northrop Grumman Corporation: ASA
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Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 122,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide. Analyst Support Architecture (ASA) is an intelligence correlation and visualization system that uses a Service Oriented Architecture. It took over the role of the prototype Northrop Grumman Corporation: THREADS system.
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[edit] Objectivity Case History
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[edit] Important
This information is an archive, so any use of the present sense in the text should be taken in the historical context, generally determinable from the Status section below.
[edit] Customer Information
- Customer: Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems
- Project: Analyst Support Architecture
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- Territory: Government
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- Application Domain: Intelligence Fusion and Presentation
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- Current Status: Deployed
- Can we talk about this customer and the product/project? Yes, but it is a classified project.
- Referenceable?: Yes, to cleared individuals via the Representative.
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[edit] The Project/Product
[edit] Project Background
ASA is an attempt to bring better data collection and visualization tools to the analyst. It:
- Correlates multi-source data to provide a fused picture.
- Compares the data against a knowledge model that provides the “expectation”.
- Alerts an analyst when data does not meet expectations.
- Allows the analyst to quickly “drill down” to all of the data relevant to the alert.
- Also allows the analyst to “do it the old fashioned way", e.g. with a freeform notebook.
[edit] Project/Product Description
The product uses a Service Oriented Architecture, with CORBA between teh clients and the application servers. There are three layers:
- System and Analysis Tools
- Process Controller
- Hosts Tool
- Model Editor
- Filter Editor
- System and Data View Services
- Activation Service
- Logger
- Edit Manager
- Filter Manager
- Query Manager
- Correlator
- View Managers
- Database Access Layer:
- Input data
- Configuration Data
- Correlated Data.
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[edit] Business Priorities
- Flexible licensing for different configurations.
- Made In America.
[edit] Technical Priorities
- Faster Development
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Schema Evolution
- Complex Data Model
- Direct Object Addressing
- Multi-Platform Support
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[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity
- The contractor could meet all of the customer’s objectives with a flexible solution.
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- None
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