New enemy location specifics arrive in seconds from the other side of a mountain through a soldier-worn GPS receiver, fast-emerging targeting details arrive through thermal sights and soldier night-vision goggles and input from a commander arrives through an RF signal …. Yet they are all coming in different technical formats and configurations. How can they be synchronized and organized in relation to one another in real-time?
To address this challenge, the Army has been evolving several “gateway” computing systems and data protocols to ensure different streams of incoming data are organized, combined and integrated into a single picture on a handheld device for soldiers on the move in combat.
The is fast gaining experience through ongoing efforts to enable greater data sharing and interoperability.
Recently, the service achieved breakthrough levels of networking, targeting, and high-speed sensor to shooter pairing during its project convergence 21 program in Arizona.
This was accomplished in large measure through the use of common data standards messaging formats and certain gateway technology able to connect otherwise separated information streams.
