Requirements analysis and architectural design of a web-based integrated weapons of mass destruction toolset
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Authors
Jones, Richard B.
Subjects
WME
WMD
Chemical
Biological
Nuclear
Hazard prediction
Software tools
Distributed
Client-server
SOAP
XML
JAVA
DTRA
HPAC
IMEA
INCA
Targeting
Webservices
J2EE
IWMDT
WMD
Chemical
Biological
Nuclear
Hazard prediction
Software tools
Distributed
Client-server
SOAP
XML
JAVA
DTRA
HPAC
IMEA
INCA
Targeting
Webservices
J2EE
IWMDT
Advisors
Shing, Man-tak
Drusinsky, Doron
Date of Issue
2004-06
Date
June 2004
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
In 1991, shortly after the combat portion of the Gulf War, key military and government leaders identified an urgent requirement for an accurate on-site tool for analysis of chemical, biological, and nuclear hazards. Defense Nuclear Agency (now Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DTRA) was tasked with the responsibility to develop a software tool to address the requirement. Based on extensive technical background, DTRA developed the Hazard Prediction Assessment Capability (HPAC). For over a decade HPAC addressed the users requirements through on-site training, exercise support and operational reachback. During this period the HPAC code was iteratively improved, but the basic architecture remained constant until 2002. In 2002, when the core requirements of the users started to evolve into more net-centric applications, DTRA began to investigate the potential of modifying their core capability into a new design architecture. This thesis documents the requirements, analysis, and architectural design of the newly prototyped architecture, Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset (IWMDT). The primary goal of the IWMDT effort is to provide accessible, visible and shared data through shared information resources and tem plated assessments of CBRNE scenarios. This effort integrates a collection of computational capabilities as server components accessible through a web interface. Using the results from this thesis, DTRA developed a prototype of the IWMDT software. Lessons learned from the prototype and suggestions for follow-on work are presented in the thesis.
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Thesis
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Department of Computer Science
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Format
xiv, 103 p. : ill. (some col.)
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.