Marion G. Ceruti

Global Interoperability Using Semantics, Standards, Science and Technology (GIS3T)

Global Interoperability Using Semantics, Standards, Science and Technology is a concept that is predicated on the assumption that the semantic integration, frameworks and standards that support information exchange, and advances in science and technology can enable information-systems interoperability for many diverse users. This paper recommends technologies and approaches for enabling interoperability across a wide spectrum of political, geographical, and organizational levels, e.g. coalition, federal, state, tribal, regional, non government, and private. These recommendations represent steps toward the goal of the Semantic Web, where computers understand information on web sites through knowledge representations, agents, and ontologies.

Wireless Data Glove for Gesture-Based Robotic Control

A wireless data glove was developed to control a Talon robot. Sensors mounted on the glove send signals to a processing unit, worn on the users forearm that translates hand postures into data. An RF transceiver, also mounted on the user, transmits the encoded signals representing the hand postures and dynamic gestures to the robot via RF link. Commands to control the robots position, camera, claw, and arm include activate mobility, hold on, point camera, and grab object.

Wireless communication glove apparatus for motion tracking, gesture recognition, data transmission, and reception in extreme environments

Military personnel need better ways to communicate in hostile, noisy, silence-mandated, and/or extreme environments. Typing on a keyboard is difficult and impractical while wearing comprehensive protective clothing. Wireless data gloves were researched and developed to transmit and receive ASCII code and other signals as hand gestures. Two categories of glove prototypes were constructed: gloves with and without a haptic-IO capability. All data gloves detect motion, such as gestures, using magnetic sensors. Non-haptic gloves only transmit static and dynamic gestures. Haptic gloves have vibro-mechanical devices on the fingertips for feedback about transmitted signals and for covert-signal reception. Many potential communications applications include hazardous and covert military operations, space operations, fire fighting, mining, training, underwater use, and aids for the visually and hearing impaired.

Next-generation tactical-situation-assessment technology (TSAT): chat

This paper presents concepts, content, status, applications and challenges of chat as used in the military context of secure net-centric command and control. It describes the importance of chat as it contributes to situation assessment and the common operating picture, which presents current collective knowledge of the battle space. The paper discusses future chat capabilities and outlines the road ahead for the TSAT project.

Emergency-management situational-awareness prototype (EMSAP)

This paper describes the architecture and requirements of an integrated system that is needed to support command and control for the interoperability-capability focus area. The architecture is designed to enhance situational awareness during emergencies such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wild fires, floods, tsunamis, mud slides, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, extreme heat, extreme cold, massive disease outbreaks, wars, terror-ist attacks, power outages, cyber-attacks on utility grids and civil unrest. A net-centric approach that emphasizes cognitive aspects, such as cognitive-information operations, in decision support ensures information superiority by networking sensors and human-factors monitoring. This enables decision makers to achieve shared awareness. Linking knowledgeable entities effectively leads to in-creased speed of command and a higher tempo of operations with a degree of self-synchronization. The resulting system will decrease cognitive over-load and improve cognitive monitoring by providing a more systematic and less labor-intensive method to manage information from and for first res-ponders at the local, tribal, state, and federal levels.

Toward an integrated system for command and control net-centric web services and sustainment: Application to Homeland Security

This paper describes the architecture and requirements of an integrated system that is needed to support the command-and-control requirements of the Department of Homeland Security during crisis prevention, disaster relief, and other critical operations. The architecture is based on emerging science and technology that has been under development in information management. Lessons learned in the implementation of decision-support systems for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense, standards, spiral-systems integration and implementation, and web-service-centric computing, contribute to the architectures design. The theoretical underpinnings of such a system are represented using a formalistic approach called “paradigm reuse.”

Data Pedigree and Strategies for Dynamic Level-One Sensor Data Fusion

Knowledge management for distributed-tracking (KMDT) is a U.S. Naval research and development project to improve military-communications and information functions in the battle space. These functions include command, control, data fusion, and decision support. It features a scenario for modeling and simulation that shows how knowledge-management technologies, such as ontologies and intelligent agents can improve battle-space awareness and the decision-making process in command centers with respect to distributed tracking and threat identification of targets. Data on cross lines of bearings can be acquired from sensors using a secure network. These data and their associated pedigree metadata from multiple platforms in the battle space can be fused to reduce the uncertainty in platform detection, localization, classification and identification (level-one data-fusion object refinement). The pedigree metadata can affect how data are used in fusion tasks