Projects
- Wireless Network Testing: Working with Northrop Grumman, SDI software engineers developed an RF test application that measures, displays, and reports wide-area wireless broadband performance. This application permits mobile drive testing to characterize network signal strength and other parameters related to the New York City Wide-area Information Network (NYCWiN) and other network deployments.
- FDNY RFID: SDI is identifying approaches to automate and streamline Fire Department New York (FDNY) firefighter identification, scheduling, and tracking at incidents. SDI developed the Electronic BF-4 (EBF-4) application, in use operationally in all five NYC boroughs, to enable FDNY Chiefs and Officers to schedule and identify personnel across tours (daily shifts). Accompanying this development, SDI is developing, refining, and hosting an FDNY RFID demonstration pilot. Installed onto five FDNY Company rigs in Queens, this effort is evaluating firefighter accountability effectiveness using COTS RFID equipment and SDI-developed Tablet PC and web applications. SDI is also investigating development of Emergency (Mayday) message interfaces with existing data and applications to support FDNY incident command and control efforts.
- Maritime Domain Development: SDI performs Flash and Java development for multiple U.S. Naval Research Laboratory maritime awareness programs. These systems use a variety of technologies, including Oracle databases, Web map servers, Flash, and Apache Tomcat to gather and combine data from multiple sources. Additionally, SDI personnel support interface definitions to permit exchange of data between NRL systems and legacy DoD maritime systems. The developed capabilities assist USN and USCG users with maritime situational awareness duties.
- Hypergraph: SDI modified and refined open source Java visualization software to display relationships between objects in a system and to expand and customize its capabilities for use with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Comprehensive Maritime Awareness Program. Users can drill down through data in the system to find the relationship between two seemingly unrelated objects. For the NRL's I2 Pilot, SDI is prototyping a Javascript hyperbolic SpyderGraph and SpyderTree application for integration with the NRL's I2 Pilot maritime domain system.
- User Provisioning System: SDI developed a user provisioning system for a wide-area wireless broadband network. The system integrates a RADIUS server, MySQL database, and an Apache Tomcat Java Web application to allow users to access the network.
- Upper Stage: SDI assisted with launch processing, documentation, and security. SDI supported the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Upper Stage spacecraft development program by creating specialized technical and security documents, performing system planning, coordinating security activities, and assisting launch processing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) facilities.
- National Restaurant Association: SDI developers assist to investigate, prototype, and deploy a variety of web technologies to augment NRA site capabilities. SDI personnel developed blogs for the NRA's Coldfusion-based Web site, restaurant.org, and integrated a third-party Wiki system with the site. SDI provides realtime support to site updates during the annual NRA trade show and developed databases to manage content associated with the annual Restaurant Neighbor Awards. SDI also implemented a designer's graphic mockup for redesign of the trade show section of restaurant.org.
- Security: SDI is experienced with creating security documentation (DCID 6/3, NISPOM, DITSCAP). SDI also handles personnel security to include investigation requests and visit request. SDI personnel are also experienced with physical security to include escorting personnel and maintaining secure facilities.
- All-Java Server: The AJS is an internal R&D RADIUS server development effort for use in a prototype user provisioning/authentication system for a wide-area wireless broadband network. The all Java RADIUS server improves transaction volume performance.
