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Technology Transfer
Throughout our 50-year history, MITRE's goal for technology transfer has been to make certain that our intellectual property is broadly used for the benefit of our sponsors and the public. We accomplish this through a number of avenues, including conference presentations, contributions to industry standards, and through open-source, freeware, and traditional licensing. Several projects that began as research projects have gone on to become important tools for government and industry. For example: Portable Wireless Relay Portable Wireless Relay was developed to provide secure, reliable two-way communications in environments such as ships, underground structures, and urban facilities where conventional communications vehicles often fail. Using this technology, a portable communications infrastructure can be rapidly deployed to enable two-way voice and data and one-way video communication. Prototype devices have been tested successfully onboard ships and in caverns, underground structures, and coastal areas. MiTap The MiTap prototype for detection of infectious diseases such as SARS uses human language technology for detecting, monitoring, and analyzing potential indicators of infectious disease outbreaks, along with issuing warnings and alerts. MiTAP provides timely, multi-lingual data access to analysts, domain experts, and decision makers worldwide. Data sources are captured, filtered, translated, summarized, and categorized. Critical information is automatically extracted and tagged to facilitate searching. Processed news articles are provided through a news server and cross-language information retrieval system for instant access. Specialized newsgroups, customizable filters, and searches on incoming stories allow users to create custom views. The system, which has been licensed to an outside company, represents an expansion of current U.S. surveillance capabilities for detecting potentially catastrophic biological agents. Automated Worm Detection Computer worms can propagate through an enterprise in seconds, while existing firewalls and intrusion detection systems can't address the time frame or scope of the worm problem. This research program aims to develop signatures and algorithms for detecting worms inside an enterprise, both in simulations and in tests on MITRE's corporate intranet, and to evaluate defensive technologies for near-real-time responses to worm infections. The program is also investigating the effectiveness of various defensive strategies against a test suite of worm algorithms. Aviation SimNet By linking many powerful simulators with different capabilities at different locations, new aviation concepts can be tested quickly and cost-effectively. Aviation SimNet, the result of MITRE-sponsored research begun in 2003, is a single framework that allows aviation labs around the world to conduct distributed simulations in real time over the Internet. The Aviation SimNet specification covers the use of standards, such as Internet Protocol, Voice over IP, and the Department of Defense's high-level architecture, to allow simulations to run across Internet firewalls. Aviation SimNet also includes a simulation hub and gateway software that facilitates laboratory connectivity. The prototype has been licensed through MITRE's Technology Transfer Office. Related Information
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