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Command-and-control and situational awareness applications are prime candidates for leaps in data bandwidth and speed.
5G Mobile Broadband Will Benefit Defense at the Tactical Edge
Mission command centers will move to the tactical edge as computing power expands.
Peeking Into the Internet of Battlefield Things
For years, the DOD has sought to harness commercial communications services and technologies to advance battlefield capabilities.
Transforming the Battlefield Into IoT Domains
Adversaries are moving out with capabilities to attack IoT devices.
Why Integrated Electronic-Cyber Warfare Is Crucial
BATTLESPACE DIGITAL TWIN
Convert overwhelming and confusing data streams into timely, intuitive, hyper-realistic situational awareness
Harness autonomous systems and
widely distributed sensor platforms
Leverage machine analytics and learning
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Unity Game Engine, providing
3-D user interface and experience
Unity Game Engine can be deployed across many platforms (e.g., MS Windows)
Engine integrates through network accessible links
to cloud dashboards, streaming video, and sensor telemetry data
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tech Alignment
Tactical operations staff, either forward deployed or remote, leverage highly realistic and immersive visualization technology used in video games and training simulators for situational awareness uses. The integration of photorealistic environments with real-time sensor data, alerts, and video streams provides hyper-realism of the battlespace.
MOBILE TACTICAL CLOUD
Onboard compute, power, communications, networking, and sensor-driven command-and-control
Data gateway between tactical sensors and higher echelon (cloud)
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El Paso Polaris MRZR equipped with Kymeta SATCOM, DRS LTE, and Wi-Fi
Onboard power upgrades for quiet, long-duration operation
Onboard compute with x86 Fitlet with Ubuntu Linux, serving as data gateway
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Tactical mission operators will have a modern and mobile platform for distributed, data-driven operations. The platform will have reduced SWaP — size, weight, and power — while providing state-of-the-art IT and communications infrastructure. Leveraging commercial technologies gives operators the form factors long enjoyed by civilians and the private sector.
MESH COMPUTE
Scalable, high-performance compute with mesh networking
Indecomposable (simple) and decomposable command-and-control (C2)
Highly mobile, integrated, distributed force operations
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DDC luggable high-performance compute cluster, with Red Hat Openshift Kubernetes cluster management, enabling composable/decomposable nodes
HPE Edgeline EL8000 edge computing platform, providing four-node high-performance machine learning (model training) with CPU, GPU acceleration
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Command posts, headquarters, and other command-and-control infrastructure will be highly mobile, composable, and decomposable while being fully integrated with and enabling distributed force operations.
SMART TACTICAL MESH
Flexible autonomous platform assisted by sensors, advanced analytics, and ML
AI-enabled object detection and data transfer to UAS from Tactical Virtual Assistant and other devices
Extended ability for tactical forces to direct systems for reconnaissance and perimeter security
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Dual NVIDIA cameras for video processing, accelerated by GPU
Onboard LTE for wireless broadband transmission of outcomes to higher echelon (cloud) for data fusion
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Tactical mission operators will convert overwhelming data streams into intuitive and timely situational awareness information by harnessing autonomous systems — such as unmanned aerial systems — and sensor platforms that are widely distributed and assisted by machine learning (ML). Presentation of this real-time information is done through digital twin visualization.
Wearable compute and power for warfighters
AI and machine learning at the tactical edge
Immersive training, virtualization, and AR
Enhanced situational awareness, navigation, communications, and target acquisition
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Microsoft HoloLens
Digital watches
Micrososoft IoT Edge and Elastisearch for data fusion to/from tactical sensors and higher echelon (cloud)
Unity Game Engine for augmented-reality (AR) user interface on head-mounted display
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Integrated technology will provide individual warfighters and teams enhanced situational awareness, navigation, communications, and target acquisition while not overwhelming their cognitive loads. This is the hyper-enabled operator in the adaptive squad.
Tactical Virtual Assistant
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Digital TWIN
Internet of Battlefield Things
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Squire: Hyper Enabled Operator
• Wearable compute and power
• Immersive training, virtualization, and augmented reality
• Situational awareness, navigation, communications, and target acquisition
• Data fusion to and from tactical cloud LTE and sensors
• AI and machine learning at tactical edge
Wireless Local Area Network
Head-Mounted Display
Microphone
Batteries (2)
Thermal Weapons Sight
Daylight video scope
Multi-function laser
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UAS/Drone: Smart Tactical Mesh
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Flexible autonomous platform assisted by sensors and machine analytics and learning
AI enabled autonomy, object detection, enables data transfer to drone from squire and other devices
Extends ability for tactical forces to direct systems for reconnaissance and base security
Onboard compute, GPS, LTE, and imagery sensors sends info to cloud
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Cameras
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Microphone
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Command Post: Mesh Compute
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Includes Headquarters and other C2 infrastructure
Highly mobile, integrated, and enables distributed force operations
Scalable, high performance compute with mesh networking
Indecomposable (simple) and decomposable C2
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Tactical Vehicle: Mobile Tactical Cloud
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Platform for modern, distributed, mobile data-driven operations
Onboard compute, power, communications, networking, sensor C2
Data gateway between tactical sensors and higher echelon
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Cloud: Higher Echelon
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Everything above the tactical edge
Collect, combine, and manipulate all IoBT node data
Advanced analytics and cyber
IoBT architecture enables data getting to the cloud
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IOBT Battlespace Digital Twin
Convert overwhelming and confusing data streams into intuitive and timely situational awareness
Harness autonomous systems and widely distributed sensor platforms
Leverage machine analytics and learning
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