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Appendix D: Representative Projects of the Rapid Reaction Technology Office
Appendix D: Representative Projects of the Rapid Reaction Technology Office
Pages 72-86
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The subset of projects discussed here is sufficiently representative to demonstrate the breadth and range of the organization's accomplishments and its influence on fielded and emerging military capabilities. Airborne Global Information Grid The Airborne Global Information Grid (AGIG) is an operational wireless, high-data-rate, Internet Protocol (IP)
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AGIG has been transitioned to the Navy and is also a component within the ongoing Zephyr High Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. Alternative Strategies The Alternative Strategy Initiative has developed over the past 3 years into a school of thought (model)
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Biometric Information Technology Evaluation Under RRTO sponsorship, the Institute for Defense Analyses created a baseline map of deployed biometric systems currently in operation in theater, including designed and alternative employment modes in the form of a process-oriented flow model. This project answered a critical need for an integrated information and analysis environment to support currently deployed biometric capabilities as well as to enable their future growth.
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program are to educate a generation of military officers with respect to the usefulness of irregular warfare methodologies, to leverage advanced information technologies to help users understand and analyze network-based adversaries in the irregular warfare environment, and to stay current with the leading innovations in related analytical technologies. The CORE laboratory is providing much-needed training to military officers who will operate in an irregular warfare environment.
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Explosives Particulate Analysis There have been significant advancements in fluorimetric detection technol ogy through the development of a fluorescent detection "ink" that is able to detect trace amounts of conventional high explosives. This technology has been engi neered into the simple-to-use, low-power, portable, and highly robust Explosives Particulate Analysis (XPAK)
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(There is a significant hazardous materials cost associated with the disposal of traditional batteries.) Navy UAVs with Jadoo power supplies are currently deployed in support of Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
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D.4 color and adaptable to allow missions that are significant to the warfighter to be easily demonstrated and refined and ultimately integrated into the available operational arsenal. The RRTO sponsored sensor enhancements and battery and power system improvements to LUUVs that will result in a 2009 operational deployment aboard a U.S.
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Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles The Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) project developed a cooperative, multiple, autonomously operating UAV system that provides users with capabilities to continuously collect intelligence, conduct surveillance, and perform reconnaissance for mission planning and execution, protection of friendly forces, and exploitation of enemy weaknesses.
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was designed to provide multi-intelligence Web enhancements, plug-and-play applications, and new data layers. These developments have been added to the existing infrastructure and used to support military operations within the existing Fusion Analysis Development Effort (FADE)
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Similar quickresponse projects were accomplished in equipping the Marine Corps "Dragon Eye" Advanced Tactical Reece Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a chemical-biological detector and video system, and with the "Thermobaric Hellfire" that improved the performance of the AGM-114N attack missile. Persistent Threat Detection System The Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS)
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The SKOPE cell applies all-source, multi-intelligence analysis linked to a spot on Earth. Through its application of human terrain analysis, SKOPE incorporates aspects of the Human Terrain System (HTS)
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aerial surveillance capability can record activities within a given area of interest so that users can detect the activities and derive tracking information about personnel or vehicles through postflight analysis. This capability to counter IEDs is a project that was achieved through partnerships.
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Tactical infrared networked awareness Tactical Infrared Networked Awareness (TINA) provides a tactical overlay and high-data-rate information exchange over tactically significant distances.
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These concepts and technologies must be sustainable and deployable and have strong potential to quickly help correct current Army/Marine/coalition capability gaps to support small-unit operations across a spectrum of environments and mission profiles, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan. A variety of mounted and dismounted technologies, including camera systems; a laser range-finder and target designator; a portable, multimodal biometric tool kit; and handheld ruggedized personal digital assistants are connected through a digital backbone.
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86 Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism FIGURE D.8 Tactical Satellite-4. SOURCE: Courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory, Department of the Navy.
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