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Collaboration tools are increasingly important to the DoD, Intelligence Community (IC), law enforcement agencies that are involved with our national security. Industry standards, including H.323 and T.120 enable interoperability between compliantapplications for audio & video teleconferencing, and share whiteboard. The majority of the commercial applications, however, do not provide recording ca ...

"Events of the past year have brought to the forefront the need for interoperability and information sharing between the different branches of the federal government. One such example is the need for a seamless command and control (C2) capability betweenthe FAA air traffic management system and DoD air defense assets. This new C2 capability would provide a common operating picture of the civil ai ...

"Communication and wireless network technology have advanced to the state where portable computing devices have proliferated to enable ubiquitous computing. Similarly, Internet technology has grown tremendously including popular media streaming applicationsthat support multicast. There remain significant obstacles, however, to integrate wireless and multicast technologies.Many military applicatio ...

The Army's FCS and MOSAIC initiatives seek to develop the concepts and prototypes for a lightweight, multi-mission combat system, which includes sensor networks and deployable munition fields. These sensor networks and munition fields rely on collectedinformation and remote commands from a manned control unit. Sophisticated protocols are needed to address the military requirements for these mo ...

"Future applications in both shipboard and highly mobile land-based wireless systems will require the capability to automatically configure and reconfigure as required to support rapid instantiation and employment of wireless networks. Current commercialtechnology-both network protocols and available hardware-make industry-standard wireless communications approaches suboptimal for platform and fa ...

The Intelligence Community (IC) faces an increasingly significant challenge in the timely acquisition, correlation and analysis of information. Information technology advances have resulted in the explosive growth in the volume and rate of data madeavailable to the analyst; this seemingly limitless supply of raw intelligence threatens to overwhelm the human element of the intelligence processing ...

Major weapons systems as well as civilian manufacturing, transportation, health care, and information management systems continue to increase in both magnitude and complexity. The size and scope of the coming generation

The goal of the Foliage Penetration Interferometric SAR (IFSAR)project is the development of an IFSAR prototype using low-cost,commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for automatic targetrecognition on UAV operations. In order to expand the IFSARutility to UAVs in today's military, a number of hurdles must beovercome. First, a low-power and compact prototype must beprovided due to the limited ...

The goal of the Foliage Penetration Interferometric SAR (IFSAR)project is the development of an IFSAR prototype using low-cost,commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for automatic targetrecognition on UAV operations. In order to expand the IFSARutility to UAVs in today's military, a number of hurdles must beovercome. First, a low-power and compact prototype must beprovided due to the limited ...

The military has incorporated an increasing amount of information technology into battlefield systems, and has grown to increasingly rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for key tasks including navigation, targeting, and situational awareness (SA).Many situations, however, require the use of this battlefield technology when GPS reception is poor-MOUT operations, in caves & tunnel networks, ...