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Global Networking
Overview The global communications challenges facing defense commands and civil organizations are enormous. Ongoing missions around the world include support to offensive and defensive operations, drug interdiction, humanitarian assistance, and peacekeeping. These joint, multinational, and interagency operations must rely on an information infrastructure capable of supporting stringent interoperability requirements. The challenges include the classification, control, dissemination, and sharing of information between the United States and its coalition partners. Among other relevant concerns are multinational operations, global air traffic management, transportation and logistics, broadcast and multicast capabilities, and the extension of commercial capabilities across the international community. All of these challenges fall into the area of net-centric operations, a concept that MITRE has been involved in since its inception. The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to expanding warfighters' options for secure voice, video, and data connectivity in the air, on the ground, and at sea. The continued development of the Global Information Grid—a unified communications, networking, and data infrastructure that connects the military's various Internet protocol-enabled systems—is providing warfighters with the next-generation communications tools they need to make informed decisions. An ongoing challenge is to extend this connectivity to the "tactical edge." MITRE is at the forefront of this effort, working to help the military provide forward-deployed warfighters with the information they need, when they need it, in a form that's useful.
We are structuring a roadmap for the DoD to extend net-centricity to warfighters even in the most hostile environments. This plan includes building new secure communications networks, establishing a common vocabulary across multiple DoD communities of interest, and extending Internet protocol networking to ground domains through platforms such as the Joint Tactical Radio System and to air domains through solutions such as airborne communications relays. MITRE is also working on a broad range of projects to enable information sharing. Our work ranges from developing new technology to helping sponsors sort out organizational issues, such as developing policies on when to share and with whom. Many problems remain, some technological, some organizational or cultural. But there is a huge push from the government to bring down barriers, and MITRE is supporting this effort every step of the way. Current Work Programs One of MITRE's hallmark projects on information sharing is the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Information Service (ISRIS), a net-centric information service that provides operationally relevant historical and near-real-time video from unmanned aircraft to users in bandwidth-constrained environments. MITRE's work on ISRIS received first place in the "Outstanding Achievement from the Defense Industry" category at the 2007 Network Centric Warfare (NCW) Awards. The NCW Awards were established to recognize and promote initiatives in the Department of Defense, coalition governments, and defense industry that exemplify network-centric warfare and support information age transformation. Other programs include:
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