SGI Federal, U.S. Air Force Space Warfare Center Sign Cooperative Research And Development Agreement

CRADA Will Further Space Warfare Center’s Ability to Provide Support to Area Commanders

SGI Federal, a wholly owned
subsidiary of SGI, today announced that it has entered into a
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force
Space Warfare Center for the development, testing and evaluation of selected
command and control technologies, decision support systems and display
technologies.

The goal of the CRADA is to create enhanced, integrated solutions that
will improve space support to area commanders. The Air Force Space Warfare
Center (SWC) is chartered with the research and development of technologies
that will enhance the utilization of space assets to the warfighters.

Under the CRADA, SGI Federal and the SWC will develop and integrate into
the SWC testbed the capability to acquire, download and ingest space data
assets in real time for the purpose of providing commanders an integrated and
enhanced common operating picture (COP). Additional modern command, control,
communications, computer and information (C4I) technologies will be examined
for possible integration into the enhanced COP.

SGI Federal and the SWC will cooperatively explore technologies that will
enable commanders to make quicker decisions and enhance space support of area
operations. Further research will examine the feasibility of integrating
unmanned aerial vehicle-type video in real time and display that imagery in
context with the enhanced COP.

“SGI Federal will benefit from this CRADA by exposing SGI technologies to
an experimental operational environment and by gaining experience in
operational requirements,” said Anthony Robbins, president, SGI Federal.
“Further benefit will be gained by applying that experience in the development
of new technologies and solutions for use in military and other U.S.
government operations.”

SGI Federal was created in April 2000 to further strengthen SGI’s
commitment to U.S. federal government customers. The subsidiary is
headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., with offices nationwide.

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