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2 Computational and Information Sciences Directorate
Pages 9-14

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... CISD performs research for the following purposes: to help design a robust, highly mobile battlefield communications network while ensuring that the information provided to commanders is current, authentic, accurate, and protected; to develop high-fidelity "micro" weather forecasts in near time (i.e., to predict weather in 10 minutes or less for the next 0 to 2 hours) in order to support combat intelligence operations and troop engagement decisions; to enhance the decision-making prowess of commanders in the battlefield; and to develop robust, physics-based, high-performance computing models and software for concept evaluation, design, and analysis (usually in support of computational science efforts in other ARL directorates)
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From page 10...
... The mobile wireless networks being developed as part of Horizontal Fusion will provide the warfighter with secure, robust voice and data communication capabilities to enable collaboration even in highly dynamic and unpredictable environments. The Warrior's Edge program will develop a dynamic, ad hoc, networked sensing system (of soldiers and robotic sensors)
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From page 11...
... It is factors such as the dimensional scale of a battlefield, the character of the underlying terrain and urban structures, and the time required for the wind to blow a natural or artificial cloud across a battlefield or city that define the atmospheric phenomena which must be observed, understood, modeled, and forecast. Hence, BED's research program must address critical and challenging problems in direct and remote atmospheric sensing, model domain size, and the spatial and temporal resolution required in diverse phenomenological, computational models.
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From page 12...
... The noises of greatest interest range from those created by stationary sources, such as individual sniper gunshots or larger ballistic and rocket weapons fire, to noises from complex moving systems such as diverse warfighting and transport vehicles. Developing and testing the very high resolution atmospheric dynamical analysis and forecast models that are of interest to the Army, and now to homeland security as well, constitute an area of extraordinarily wide-ranging national and international need and attention.
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From page 13...
... Both CISD and SLAD, for example, have important roles to fulfill in this area. The Board believes that CISD should be taking a larger role in information assurance and security within ARL and that resources (staffing)
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Key Terms

  • computational science
  • battlefield environment
  • cisd researchers
  • weather forecasts
  • basic language

  • computational models
  • communications science
  • model validation
  • acoustical signals
  • homeland security

  • arl directorates
  • edge program
  • language translation
  • national weather
  • networked computers

  • equipment left
  • environment division
  • science panel
  • dynamical analysis
  • sniper gunshots

  • sense data
  • highly mobile
  • robust voice
  • engineering activities
  • researchers continue

  • atmospherically propagated
  • little information
  • leadership change
  • resolution required
  • mobile networks


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