Conventional and Revolutionary Material Solutions for Composites Hatches and Scuttles

The Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) was developed to share unfiltered sensormeasurements between cooperating units (CU) within the battlegroup. This sharing ofinformation facilitates the development of a common air picture. However, due tobandwidth limitations, there is a limit to the number of units that may receive thisinformation. Data compression techniques can be applied to increase the number ofunits which are able to exchange these sensor measurements. This Phase I proposalwill examine the current state of data compression and develops/analyzes a losslesscompression algorithm for inclusion within the CEC's Data Distribution System (DDS).The utilization of a lossless compression algorithm with the Cooperative EngagementCapability's Data Distribution System or any other tactical data link will enhancethe information superiority achievable by US military forces.