Harris Corporation Full-Motion Video Asset Management Engine Meets All Pilot Program Objectives During Empire Challenge 2008
October 27 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
FAME(TM) Platform Speeds Discoverability and Use of Motion Imagery
for Government, Defense and Intelligence Organizations NASHVILLE,
Tenn., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GEOINT Exposition, Booth#
256 -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international
communications and information technology company, successfully
demonstrated the situational awareness benefits of its Full-Motion
Video Asset Management Engine (FAME(TM)) at Empire Challenge 2008,
held this summer at China Lake, Calif. Hosted by the U.S. Joint
Forces Command and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the
annual invitation-only exercise tests and evaluates situational
awareness tools that enhance joint and coalition intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance interoperability. "The efficient
acquisition, storage, management and dissemination of situational
awareness information - particularly full-motion video - is a key
challenge for defense and intelligence agencies," said Lucius
Stone, director of Defense Programs for Harris Broadcast
Communications. "FAME(TM) leverages our advanced commercial
broadcast technology into the government space and dramatically
reduces the time required to get multimedia, situational awareness
information into the hands of military commanders and other
decision-makers." The Harris FAME system, developed with input from
intelligence analysts, is a collaborative platform that provides
video, audio and metadata coding, video analytics, and archive
capabilities within a unified digital asset management solution.
Simultaneous motion imagery feeds from multiple sensor types can be
ingested, annotated, and shared in real time. Discovery and
dissemination of motion imagery products within
bandwidth-challenged networks are supported with a thin (remote)
Web-based client for at-distance access and collaboration. During
Empire Challenge 2008, the Harris FAME system played a key role in
the Motion Imagery Pilot Initiative. The FAME system's primary
mission was to add value to, and improve the discoverability of,
motion imagery. FAME(TM) enabled analysts to select from among
multiple live Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) feeds or pre-recorded
streams and perform exploitation and dissemination in real time
within a collaborative environment. Analysts could collaborate
simultaneously to annotate the video with mission text chat,
telestration and audio. Annotations were then saved as rich
metadata time-associated with the video for later search and
retrieval and publication to the DCGS (Distributed Common Ground
System) Integration Backbone (DIB). FAME(TM) met all objectives of
the pilot and demonstrated the benefits in leveraging commercial
broadcast technologies for government tactical needs. About Harris
Corporation Harris is an international communications and
information technology company serving government and commercial
markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne,
Florida, the company has annual revenue of $5.3 billion and 16,500
employees - including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris
is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(R)
products, systems, and services. Additional information about
Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/.
DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Susan Sheppard, Harris
Broadcast Communications, +1-321-727-6514, ; Marc Raimondi, Harris
Corporation - Washington, D.C., +1-202-729-3732, ; or Jim Burke,
Harris Corporation, +1-321-727-9131, Web site:
http://www.harris.com/
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