Many people have noted that the Government keeps buying software−intensive systems that are often quite similar to each other. A recent article in Crosstalk1, for example, listed a large number of different systems in the DoD C4I application area that performed essentially the same functions. Several DoD sponsored studies, most notably one done by the Air Force PRISM program, have shown that 70...

JOEF (Joint Operational Effects Federation) is a simulation federation that supports CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear warfare on military operations. Its primary interface to users is JWARN (Joint Warning and Reporting Network), which is an automated reporting of CBRN incidents for the joint or each service. It also automates the transfer of data between CBRN detectors/sensors...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a promising approach used to reduce the time and cost of business solutions in enterprises, and it provides enterprises with agility to respond dynamically to its changing requirements. Therefore, there is a need for great efforts to move agencies and enterprises into systems, such as C4I systems and those that are supported by SOAs. For this reason, numer...

CTA Trends and Challenges (CTAs involved) ENS Electronics, Networking, and Systems/C4I 1. TC-ENS1-DoD mission requirements increasingly drive RD&E efforts to explore deployable HPC solutions, as opposed to the traditional model of HPC center with reach-back capabilities. This trend is driven by the perception that new technologies (e.g., general-purpose graphics processing units or GPGPUs), can...

Priscilla McAndrews, Lisa Nicklas, and Dr. J. Mark Pullen C4I Center George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030, USA +1 703 993 3682 {pmcandre,lnicklas,mpullen}@c4i.gmu.edu Experience has demonstrated that practical deployment of SISO Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) and Coalition Battle Management Language (C-­‐BML) at a scale beyond one C2 system connected to one simulation system...

The ICARUS EU-FP7 project deals with the development of a set of integrated components to assist search and rescue teams in dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving task of finding human survivors. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles, equipped with victim detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communic...

Although a lot of research has taken place in Object Oriented Design of software for Real Time systems and mapping of design models to implementation models, these methodologies are applicable to systems which are less complex and small in source code size. However, in practice, the size of the software for real time applications is growing. The run time architecture of real time applications i...

The ICARUS EU-FP7 project deals with the development of a set of integrated components to assist search and rescue teams in dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving task of finding human survivors. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles, equipped with victim detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communic...