Research Summaries

Back Field Information Reporting Support Tool (FIRST)

Fiscal Year 2011
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Information Sciences
Investigator(s) Ehlert, James F.
Sponsor Naval Surface Warfare Center-Dahlgren Division (Navy)
Summary The Field Information Reporting Support Tool (FIRST) provides a hardware and software knowledge management system for capturing field data which can be analyzed using geospatial, temporal, link and social network tools and techniques. This information, combined with effective visualization, categorization, filter and analysis, provides the decision maker new information that is efficiently sharable throughout the command structure. The system can thus support a continuous cycle of actionable information creation processes such as planning, collection, consolidation, analysis, production, sharing, planning.
Keywords Knowledge Management Visualization Sense Making Data Fusion
Publications Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal
Data Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal