IBM Has Formed a Consortium of Leading Academic and Industry Partners. Together with UK

About Us

IBM has formed a consortium of leading academic and industry partners. Together with UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) we have formed an alliance to perform research in network centric systems.

IBM has long had one of the largest and most admired commercial research and development (R&D) programs in the world, and has an outstanding track record of transitioning the technologies developed in its fundamental research programs into commercial products. IBM operates some of the largest R&D facilities in Computer Science in the US and one of the largest European development facilities at Hursley, UK. Through this consortium, ARL and MoD will leverage the insights gained by IBM from years of commercial research and transition.

Furthermore, the breadth of our expertise offers to ITA: (i) a team of the foremost faculty and researchers working in the field in the four technical areas in the program bulletin on both sides of the Atlantic; (ii) a team of recognized military domain experts including some of the major defense system integrators in the US (BBN, The Boeing Company, Honeywell, Applied Research Associates) and the UK (LogicaCMG, Roke Manor Research Limited, SEA); (iii) an excellent technical agenda for research with proven management processes; and (iv) commitment to an aggressive cost-sharing plan that will deliver more research hours for the tax-payer’s money.
We are a team with exciting new ideas, innovative ways of working, and extensive experience in the military domain. We are committed to work with US and UK Government scientists as partners in a single alliance that forms a ground-breaking venture and opens new frontiers in the exploitation of the information technology.
Our Vision
Working as a team with US and UK Government scientists, we want to expand the technological capabilities of the US Army and UK Armed Forces to give them information advantage in challenging urban warfare situations that may include humanitarian relief, civilian and insurgent control, or full combat operations. The future vision articulated by the US Army and UK Armed Forces identifies various dimensions for developing technologies relevant to the future military needs of the two countries. These dimensions are shown in Figure 2. The focus of our research will be to develop technologies that fall within the scope of the four technical areas, and will improve the state of the art along each dimension.
Coalition forces operating in an asymmetric environment need improved interoperability and situational awareness to increase their operational efficiency. The situational awareness should be shared across different members of the armed forces and should cut across coalition boundaries subject to security and other established policies. In an urban warfare context, the coalition forces need to have an increased awareness of the complete picture at hand, including an understanding of the complex cultural and socioeconomic implications of any action. Operations and missions conducted by different coalition members should be seamlessly coordinated and precisely synchronized. Increased responsiveness to complex and urgent situations is required, and the systems need to improve survivability, including means to reduce fratricide, civilian casualties, and property damage in the face of unpredictable actions taken by an adversary. For example, an agile adversary who aims to disrupt urban peace-keeping operations through terrorist and guerilla warfare needs to be countered at a speedier operational tempo in which war-fighters can switch rapidly from one role to another.
Developing these capabilities, on one hand, requires breakthroughs in fundamental research, while, on the other, requires a research execution plan that maximizes the impact of this research and the probability of successful transition of its outcome to the US Army and UK Armed Forces. To achieve this goal, our research team will leverage its strong talent among academia, industrial researchers, and government scientists along with the expertise in project management and transition to deliver maximum value to the public of the two countries.
Our research program is designed to break down the barriers between different technical areas and to define synergistic cross-area projects that promote cooperation across international and organizational boundaries. In addition, exploiting the experiences of industrial members of the consortium in similar successful transitions in the commercial area, our approach is designed to improve the chances of a successful transition.

Members

Alliance Academic Members – US

·  CMU [Carnegie Mellon University]
Dawn Song, S. Seshan, Katia Sycara

·  Columbia
Henning Schulzrinne, Steve Bellovin

·  Penn State [Pennsylvania State University]
Thomas La Porta

·  RPI [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]
Boleslaw Szymanski

·  U. Mass [University of Massachusetts]
Jim Kurose, D Towsley

·  UCLA [University of California at Los Angeles]
D. Estrin, M. Srivastava, M. Gerla

·  UMD [University of Maryland]
V. Gligor, J Hendler

·  CUNY [City University of New York]
Theodore Brown, Z Zhang, Bilal Khan, Nancy Griffeth, Kent Boklan, Jinwoo Kim, Ping Ji, Amotz Bar Noy, Shuqun Zhang, Abbe Mowskowitz, Subhash Shankar, Simon Parsons

Alliance Academic Members – UK

·  University of Southampton
Nigel Shadbolt, Mark Nixon

·  University of Aberdeen
Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman, Tim Norman

·  University of Cambridge
Jon Crowcroft, Pietro Lio

·  Imperial College
Erol Gelenbe, Morris Sloman, Kin Leung

·  York University
John Mcdermid

·  Cranfield University (RMCS)
Ian Whitworth

·  Royal Holloway College
Kenny Paterson

Alliance Industry Members – US

·  The Boeing Corporation

·  Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems

·  BBNT Solutions LLC

·  Applied Research Associate Inc.

Alliance Industry Members – UK

·  Logica CMG

·  Roke Manor Research Limited

·  Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd

Alliance Government Members

·  ARL

·  MoD Science Innovation Technology

·  Dstl

·  CESG

Transition Team Members
The transition team is a panel of experts who will identify opportunities for military transition
UK Transition Team
Air Commodore Bruce Wynn OBE RAF(Retd)
Dr. Quentin Vaughan
Mr. Phil Jolley

Dr. David Sloggett

Dr. Barry Sowerbutts

Mr. Mike Jackson

Mr. Ian Whitworth

Prof. John McDermid

Prof. Nigel Shadbolt

US Transition Team

Major General (ret.) Terry Juskowiak

General (ret.) Lee Solomon

Mr. Harry Ching

Dr. James A. Freebersyser

Mr. Waldo Carmona

Prof. Don Towsley

Prof. Thomas F. La Porta

From usukita.org/ 1 26 October 2006