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SeaLink is an Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) development and integration initiative to improve fleet access to maritime intelligence. SeaLink provides fleet and other intelligence consumers with on-line, on-demand access to maritime intelligence information produced and maintained at the National Maritime Intelligence Center. SeaLink provides direct, seamless access to ONI production databases using World-Wide Web (WWW) browsers, meaning that users now have a simple, point-and-click interface to databases with dynamic, data-driven displays from any client platform.
SeaLink uses commercial technology to enable users to call database-stored procedures; in turn, these procedures generate HTML (HyperText Markup Language) pages on the fly with imbedded data from the databases. A joint Government/ MITRE/Contractor team developed and prototyped SeaLink, the first use of WWW Database Interface Software within Intelink to provide a seamless access to a federation of operational maritime databases. The impacts of the technology used in SeaLink are far reaching. The web-style interface provides target information quickly, and hides the underlying stovepipe database structures. SeaLink also enables users to move legacy databases quickly and with a minimum of problems. Users access SeaLink using a commercial WWW browser (for example, Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer); from this interface, they can perform ad-hoc database queries or simply browse the databases using specified URLs (Universal Resource Locators). SeaLink provides access to ONI maritime scientific and technical information, ship location, ship characteristics, and an extensive range of other maritime intelligence information. Users can perform geographic searches for maritime intelligence using a system-supplied map, user-provided coordinates, or region or port names. The results from the query can themselves contain pointers to other important intelligence information in other databases. A geographic query may return a number of ships each with pointers to ship location and characteristics data. SeaLink began as a MITRE-inspired prototype but has since been successfully transitioned to the Government as an operational system. SeaLink has been a resounding success with the fleet. For more information, please contact Gary Huber using the employee directory. |
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