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Military Believes in MAJIIC
The Defense Department is in the process of building an intelligence-sharing architecture with its allies this April. This service-oriented architecture will collect Extensible Markup Language (XML)-tagged metadata -- such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data -- from its various stovepiped intelligence systems in near-real time.
The goal is to piece together a common picture from all types of intelligence under MAJIIC (Multi-sensor Aerospace-ground Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition). MAJIIC deals with data collected from all different sensors.
The Joint Forces Command (Norfolk, VA) led an advanced-concept technology demonstration of MAJIIC two years ago. According to Joint Forces, the architecture's capabilities should be fully operational by 2008, with both NATO and non-NATO participants working with Joint Forces to develop a common data format, common interfaces and XML schemas to share IASR data in near-real time.
Two MAJIIC servers are now under test at Langley Air Force Base's transformation center in Virginia. A UNIX server from EchoStorm Inc. (Hampton, VA) handles video and the server from Raytheon Co. (Waltham, MA) handles imagery, ground-moving-target-indication radar, synthetic aperture radar and other sensor data.
