The Washington Post’s Tom Ricks, best known for his scoops from his contacts at the top of the Pentagon food chain and writing excellent books like Fiasco and Making the Corps, gets tech-y today in a small piece buried in the back pages of the Post.
Seems Ricks has been poking around the DARPA Web site, since he highlights a few technologies that the agency has developed which have started to trickle their way onto the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, including DARPA’s Tactical Ground Reporting System (TIGR), which he describes as a “computerized map” on which soldiers “outline the area where they will operate. Then they watch as icons emerge, showing, in grim detail, the lurking dangers.
By clicking on those, they can bring up not only sites of past hostile action but also photos and background on local leaders -- some to see and others to avoid -- videos of hostile and safe places, and reports from previous patrols… ”
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