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| DARPA's Map-Based Wiki Keeps Platoons Alive |
| from the a-wiki-of-one dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 23, @07:57 (The Military) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/0330241 |
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[0]blackbearnh writes "One of the biggest problem that a platoon on the
ground in Iraq or Afghanistan faces is that when a new unit cycles in,
all the street-sense and experience of the old unit is lost. Knowing
where insurgents like to plant IEDs, or even which families have a lot of
domestic disputes, can spell the difference between living and dying. In
response to this, DARPA created TIGR, the Tactical Ground Reporting
System. Developed as much on the ground in active warzones as in a lab,
TIGR lets platoons access the latest satellite and drone imagery in an
easy-to-use map based interface, as well as recording their experiences
in the field and accessing the reports of other troops. In this
[1]O'Reilly Radar interview, two of the people responsible for the
development of TIGR talk about the intel issues that troops face in
hostile territory, the challenges of deploying new technology meant for
combat areas, the specific tricks that they had to employ to make TIGR
work over less-than-robust military networking, and how TIGR is impacting
platoons in their day to day operations"
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/23/0330241
Links:
0. http://www.oreilly.com/
1. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/where-20-preview---darpas-tige.html
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