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Armed Forces Ready Battlefield Technology Tests

For 11 days in June, the U.S. military will test cutting-edge technology that could be used on the battlefield--and perhaps in business. Information security is the main technologies being tested and the results of these military tests should prove to be interesting.

Over the next two weeks, members of the U.S. military, select foreign armies, and domestic law-enforcement and emergency-response agencies will test cutting-edge technologies with the potential to serve on the front lines of the war against terrorism. And unlike many defense tech initiatives, this isn't about far-out ideas. The best stuff could be in the field in a matter of months.

Among the more than 100 technologies to be tested are a "masking shunt" that makes firewalls invisible to hackers. There's a system that uses everyday Web-services standards to link the U.S. and U.K. air forces. And there's a radio-frequency identification tagging system to send real-time casualty reports from battlefield to headquarters.

InformationWeek

Posted by | Sat, Jun 11, 2005 - 11:51 AM