Data & Reasoning Fabric (DRF) Core(ARC-18884-1)

Operations in dynamic environments require decisions based on diverse and evolving data, including vehicle, airspace, weather, infrastructure, payload, and customer data. The complexity and density of these operations are expected to increase significantly over the next several decades. This will necessitate new strategies and systems that leverage emerging technologies to manage increasingly complex environments, especially in urban areas where rich data streams from smart cities will be crucial for efficient operations. The goal of the Data & Reasoning Fabric (DRF) is to address these challenges by enabling a self-sustaining marketplace where data and reasoning providers can advertise their services, and data and reasoning consumers can discover, vet, purchase, interconnect, and utilize these services to accomplish their missions. DRF is a framework for an ecosystem that encourages commercial industries to exchange information with each other while monetizing their digital assets and maintaining control of their intellectual property. It also allows government entities to enforce policies and regulations. DRF is an open and scalable framework that abstracts the technical complexities of data and AI services while providing interoperability and data protection across the cloud-to-edge continuum using decentralized networks, advanced cryptography methods, distributed interoperability architecture, and support for economic activities.