Keynote: Evolving Systems for Situational Awareness

The most basic functions of any organism or organized unit requires understanding the environment. This is accomplished through sensing; for organisms, sensing is an evolved faculty. The same is true for military and first responder units such as squads, who are relying on more sophisticated sensing systems to gain greater situational awareness (SA) in order to more effectively and safely conduct their missions. Adding sensing to the squad, however, only solves part of the problem; there must be an appropriate communications system in place to make full use of the acquired SA information. This talk will explore the use of content-based networking solutions for efficiently distributing the SA information in a decentralized manner.