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"Rapid, model-based development along with perpetual and complexchange characterizes today's software-dependent mission criticalsystems. The costs associated with detecting and fixing errors insuch software-intensive systems can total 75% of the cost ofdeveloping that software. Furthermore, fixing errors late in thelife cycle is more costly due to the overall impact of code levelchanges. Hence, er ...

In order to expand the utility of unmanned ground vehicles in today's military, anumber of practical hurdles must be overcome. Better navigation aids must beprovided, and in a way that fits into the current communications infrastructure.The current DoD Standard Teleoperation Kit (STK), which allows any vehicle to becontrolled remotely, employs a standard broadband video link for communicationbetw ...

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The goal of the FPGA FOPEN SAR digital processor is to provide adequate foliage penetration that allows the detection of concealed man-made objects in dense foliage. Our Phase I work on the FPGA FOPEN SAR digital processor included the generation of 100dBdata for detection performance enhancement, the identification of map registration for hyperspectral image processing and the reduction of clutte ...

Intelligence analysts face increasingly significant challenges in the timely acquisition, correlation and analysis of intelligence information. Recent information technology advances have resulted in explosive growth in the volume and rate of intelligencedata pushed to the analyst. Recent military initiatives, including the Consistent Battlespace Picture (CBP) and the Joint Battlespace Infospher ...

The effectiveness of team-oriented tactical operations by SOF is greatly enhancedby the ability to tightly coordinate the actions of team members. In particular,advances in miniature commercial computer display technologies show promise forproviding a powerful tool for disseminating information to team members. Thisdisplay capability, coupled with advances in personal digital assistants (PDAs) f ...

Distributed computing systems have matured from simple client/server applicationstowards large complex systems. While computing processing and network bandwidthcapabilities have dramatically improved in recent years, the design andimplementation of complex systems remains difficult and expensive. Componentsoftware has emerged to address this issue. Several competing component technologieshave been ...

Recent events, including the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States, serve to highlight the need for improved intelligence and collection management. Collaboration tools are becoming increasingly important to the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC),law enforcement agencies and others that are involved with our national security. Many agencies and services each have their own private, secur ...

This Phase II effort will involve the effective translation of the SOF Tactical Information Display (STID) architecture developed under Phase I into a set of functional prototypes. The STID will be able to capture screen display data from a standard VGAport and transmit it wirelessly via a low probability of detection (LPD) ultra-wideband (UWB) link to a remote miniature display, which could be w ...

Data display languages are used by the US Air Force for test and evaluation of aircraft and space systems. The need to translate between data display languages arises especially in joint service programs when applications need to be reused, migrated orshared. It is important to use a common representation of the data in this conversion problem to reduce translator development efforts and provide a ...