Empowering the battlefield with a mobile middleware platform

In this paper we analyze the utility of mobile middleware platform technology applied in a realistic military exercise scenario. The system was demonstrated to the Office of Naval Research in partial fulfillment of the US Marines Corps next generation Ground Logistics Command and Control (GLC2) platform. In particular, we will highlight four mission critical activities, namely a) Alerting and notification of information to a wide variety of handheld devices, b) A publish and subscribe interface for mobile devices to an Ontology Driven Knowledge Dissemination (ODKD) system via the middleware platform, c) Link/Status detection and seamless switchover from a secure wired to a secure wireless (802.11b) infrastructure and d) Autonomic sensor data parsing and injection for use in a course of action tool simulator.