Demonstrate Track Management Concepts for Exchange of GMTI Track Information

The sharing of military data on the battlefield is currently an incredibly complex process. The computers, communication devices, weapons systems, and sensors deployed by the various services lack standardized interfaces, require excessive support, andsuffer myriad problems that impede the effective flow of information during combat operations. The proposed GeoSystem client/server track manager is an integrated toolkit which will address this problem. Using industry standards for information transportthat have evolved with the Internet, the GeoSystem will provide the infrastructure required to ensure secure, real-time data flow on the battlefield. During this Phase I effort, we will build on some of our existing track-manager software to produce aprototype that will include all the functionality required of a system suitable for actual field deployment. The aviation safety community, biological monitors, climate modelers, surveyors, oil-explorers, and certain types of mineral excavators all facetrack-management problems similar to those faced by the Air Force. The technologies we propose to develop during this Phase I effort could all be adapted to support these endeavors.