Promising Technologies for Future Systems

Joint Vision 2020, set forth by the Department of Defense, places a number of non-trivial, challenging requirements on future systems: integration of data from distributed, dynamic, heterogeneous sources on the fly, and networks robust and fast enough to support secure real-time manipulation, fusion, and presentation of all this data. This technical note presents a few of the many programs, technologies, and research efforts that are addressing the challenges faced by future systems.