LAS VEGAS, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (NAB Show,
Booth N2502) -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an
international communications and information technology company,
has announced new capabilities that integrate with its commercial
Full-Motion Video Asset Management Engine (FAME). These
additional features are designed to improve situational awareness
by helping manage the massive quantity of video and other data that
military and government agencies receive every day.
FAME is a collaborative platform that provides video, audio and
metadata coding, video analytics and archive capabilities within a
unified digital asset management solution. Using the FAME
architecture, Harris has developed additional features to provide
intelligence analysts and warfighters with better access to
higher-resolution full-motion video, motion imagery and visual
imagery.
Integrating crossover technologies from Harris commercial and
government businesses, Harris has been able to dramatically reduce
the time required to get multimedia, situational awareness
information into the hands of military commanders and other
decision-makers. At the 2010 NAB Show, Harris is unveiling
new features that utilize the FAME platform, including a number of
new software applications for use as intelligence tools.
Improved Situational Awareness Enables Actionable
Intelligence
Harris is introducing a powerful add-on capability to its FAME
asset management architecture to support "event-based correlation"
of media and other sources of intelligence within the architecture.
This new add-on will significantly enhance military users'
ability to associate media and intelligence information to solve
complex problems across a wide variety of data sources.
"The Harris 'event-based correlation' feature provides a
powerful set of tools to allow analysts to correlate and visualize
a range of data sources," said Brian
Cabeceiras, vice president of strategic marketing and
technology, Harris Broadcast Communications. "The data
sources can be tied to events, which can be correlated with other
sources of intelligence within the same user environment."
The new add-on capability will help military analysts tag
specific data in video; combine and verify the resulting
information with slices of video, audio, sensor and other data; and
send the information in real time to decision-makers in the
field.
Advanced Graphics Technology Improves Usefulness of
Geospatial Data
Also new is the Harris Media Collaborator, which provides both
traditional broadcast and military customers with advanced
telestration and tracking capability, as well as access to
additional information-bearing graphics to the entire motion
imagery process. In addition, Harris has integrated a Flash
reporting tool into the FAME architecture, which automates the
fusion of video, rich graphics and metadata into a Flash video for
dissemination to end users.
Other enhancements include an enterprise-enabled FAME solution,
which has been implemented using virtualization technologies.
This greatly reduces the hardware footprint, simplifies
deployment and reduces support and maintenance overhead — resulting
in significantly lower, overall life cycle costs.
Harris also has developed a geospatial-enabled multiviewer to
work with the FAME platform. This multiviewer enables
military command centers to link content with geospatial data to
make it more useful and contextual, as well as view multiple
displays of inputs in a common viewing environment. In
addition, a highly scalable, IP-enabled graphics stream processing
solution allows the creation of evolved video feeds in the
compressed domain. These capabilities extend the reach of the
FAME architecture from the sensor to the warfighter with a lower
profile and footprint, making it much more user friendly in
mobile/forward-deployed locations.
Harris Broadcast Communications offers products, systems and
services that provide interoperable workflow solutions for
broadcast, cable, satellite and out-of-home networks. The
Harris ONE™ solution brings together highly integrated and
cost-effective products that enable advanced media workflows for
emerging content delivery business models.
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
approximately $5 billion of annual
revenue and more than 15,000 employees — including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at www.harris.com.
SOURCE Harris Corporation