MITRE Receives Award for Advancing Network-Centric Warfare Concepts

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McLean, Virginia, February 11, 2005 — The MITRE Corporation has received the "Outstanding Achievement from the Defense Industry" award from the Institute for Defense and Government Applications (IDGA). IDGA honored MITRE at the 2nd Annual Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) Awards, held on January 26 at IDGA's NCW 2005 Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. IDGA is a non-partisan information-based organization dedicated to promoting innovative ideas in public service and defense.

The award recognizes MITRE's contributions to the Blue Force Tracking Community of Interest Service, in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration.

The Blue Force Tracking Community of Interest Service grew from discussions with the military to show how "blue force tracking" information could be made available throughout the battle theater and beyond using Web-based technology. Blue force tracking reduces friendly fire incidents by enabling military personnel to maintain location awareness with each other and their commanders through a network of satellites, portable computers, and wireless connections. The Service prototype allows tracking information to be posted and accessed continuously by authorized personnel, which will make troops safer. The Service contributes to the Department of Defense's goal of connecting our military services and their allies via Internet-based systems—a concept known as "network-centric warfare." (Although not yet fielded, the prototype is a basis for the operational version of the Service.)

"This was a challenging problem that brought together many of our partners throughout the Department of Defense," says Alfred Grasso, senior vice president and director of MITRE's Department of Defense Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Federally Funded Research and Development Center, one of three such centers MITRE operates for the federal government. "I am proud of our staff's ability to take this from concept to prototype in a short time and pleased that these contributions were recognized by both industry and government."

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