SBIR Phase I: Distributed Ledger Technology Based Collaborative Project Management Platform

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提高资本项目的绩效和问责制，这些项目具有重大的经济和社会影响。大型资本项目，如基础设施和能源，对经济有长期利益，影响当地社区，并具有地缘政治影响。国防、科学和医疗保健等重要领域的项目经常会出现大规模的成本和时间超支，这使得高效和可验证的项目执行非常有益。这些项目非常复杂，难以管理;它们需要多个内部利益相关者共同努力，并影响许多外部社区。拟议的解决方案是一个平台，可以实现自我调节的项目网络，并集成跨公司的时间表，合同和信息流。该平台将基于分布式账本技术和智能合约，使其透明，高效和安全。拟议的解决方案将为资本项目创建一个新的、可靠的、可衡量的范例，并允许多个公司协作规划和共同构建这些项目。它还将有助于监管监督，项目将包括所有利益相关者。该平台将为复杂项目的规划和建设带来革命性的影响，显著提高成本和进度绩效，并为数万亿美元的资本项目市场带来更大的责任感。SBIR第一阶段项目建议使用区块链技术开发一个平台，以提高资本项目的绩效和责任感。该技术将显著提高透明度，同时使项目更具成本和进度效率。该平台将带来更具响应性和责任感的共生项目生态系统，并推动定向、非循环、基于图的分布式账本技术在多方企业工作流中的应用。协作治理平台将使经过认证的利益相关者能够自我调节项目网络，利用基于共识的单一事实来源，并自动执行合同和价值交换。该平台将时间表、合同和付款同步到一个系统中，并在所有参与者之间达成可验证的共识。该技术将通过减轻复杂性的影响来激励项目绩效，并通过提供可验证的数据来实现项目的人工智能和机器学习应用。重点将是开发平台的架构和业务模式。 该团队将进行市场研究，以确定主要的商业消费者和潜在的收入来源。该项目将建立一个概念验证，以证明该平台的可行性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to improve the performance and accountability of capital projects which have significant economic and social impact. Large capital projects, such as infrastructure and energy, have long-term benefits to economies, affect local communities, and have geopolitical implications. Projects in important sectors such as defense, science, and healthcare often suffer massive cost and time overruns, making efficient and verifiable project execution highly beneficial. These projects are very complex and challenging to manage; they require multiple internal stakeholders to work together and affect many external communities. The proposed solution is a platform that enables self-regulating project networks and integrates schedules, contracts, and information flow across companies. This platform will be based on distributed ledger technology and smart contracts, making them transparent, efficient, and secure. The proposed solution will create a new, reliable, measurable paradigm for capital projects and allow multiple companies to collaboratively plan and collectively build them. It will also aid regulatory oversight, and projects will include all stakeholders. The platform will be revolutionary for complex projects planning and building, significantly improving cost and schedule performance, and bringing greater accountability to the multi-trillion dollar capital project market.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to develop a platform using blockchain technology that improves the performance and accountability of capital projects. The technology will enable significantly improved transparency, while making projects more cost and schedule efficient. The platform will result in more responsive and responsible symbiotic project ecosystems and advance the application of directed, acyclic, graph based distributed ledger technology to multi-party enterprise workflows. The collaborative governance platform will enable self-regulating project networks of authenticated stakeholders, utilizing a consensus-based single-source-of-truth, and automate contract execution and value exchange. The platform will synchronize schedules, contracts, and payments into one system with verifiable consensus across all participants. The technology will incentivize project performance by mitigating the effects of complexity and enable artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for projects by providing verifiable data. The focus will be on developing the architecture and business model of the platform. The team will conduct market research to identify the primary commercial consumers and potential revenue streams. The project will build a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the feasibility of the platform. The anticipated results include a functional prototype of the platform and a validated business model.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.