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The initial target is experimental satellites that would <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://ssl.mit.edu/spheres/gsp/" target="_blank">operate inside the International Space Station</a>.</p> <p>Here’s the key graph:</p> <p>“Specifically, DARPA seeks an open-innovation approach to the development of algorithms for the control of the Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) that operate inside the International Space Station. Ideally, participation in the innovation process would be open to groups numbering in the hundreds, to thousands, to possibly millions of people worldwide.”</p> <p>That is a BIG open-source commitment. Typically, you would expect thousands of people to contribute on such a project, but millions? Worldwide? DARPA has titled its RFI “Crowd Sourcing Algorithms for Spacecraft Cluster Control,” but I’d say that’s taking even the new age term a little far.</p> <p>However, DARPA wouldn’t be DARPA if it didn’t stretch the limits. It’s also looking to spread this over as wide an age-range as possible, apparently even down to schoolkids, as part of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program component.</p> <p>As for as the military goal of this, DARPA has long been involved in the possible use of swarm technology to use hosts of miniature satellites. It’s latest program is titled the Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange (System F6), for which it let <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://www.darpa.mil/news/2009/F6_NewsRelease_December2009.pdf" target="_blank">the latest contract</a> in December.</p> <p>And that’s probably enough of the mad scientist -- and acronym-heavy -- stuff for a while.<br></p> <p id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl0_ctl00_pAuthDate">Posted on <span class="date">Jan 21, 2010</span> at <abbr>7:34 AM</abbr><em><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/DARPA-SPHERES-satellite-program.aspx#Comments">0 comments</a></em></a></p> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div> <h3 id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl1_ctl00_h3Title"><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/jamie-barnett-public-safety-communications.aspx">U.S. first responder communications still a mess</a></h3> <p>Among all of the stories about Twitter and Facebook affecting the response to the Haiti earthquake, here’s a sobering reminder of how basic interoperable communications among first responders in the U.S. is still a myth, a problem that should have been sorted out a long time ago.</p> <p> </p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/76709-communicating-in-a-disaster" target="_blank">In an op-ed in The Hill</a> retired Navy Rear Adm. Jamie Barnett points out that if a similar earthquake were to strike the United States, we’d be in a parlous situation. Decades after the fact was pointed out, and despite all of the public breast-beating that’s been spent on the issue, the U.S. is still without a public safety broadband wireless network.</p> <p> </p><p>And that’s even after the tragedies of the 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina glaringly illustrated the disastrous consequences of the lack of such communications.</p> <p> </p><p>Representatives of America’s public safety officials recently visited Congress to push for more spectrum that could be used to create a national public safety network. Once again, however, they are up against commercial interests who are lobbying for public spectrum to be allocated to them to relieve them of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://www.physorg.com/news181153097.html" target="_blank">the squeeze on their networks</a>.</p> <p>Barnett know whereof he speaks, by the way: He’s the Federal Communications Commission’s chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. The FCC has been conducting a series of broad-ranging hearings on how to improve U.S. broadband communications.</p><p><p><p> <p id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl1_ctl00_pAuthDate">Posted on <span class="date">Jan 21, 2010</span> at <abbr>10:45 AM</abbr><em><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/jamie-barnett-public-safety-communications.aspx#Comments">0 comments</a></em></a></p> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div> <h3 id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl2_ctl00_h3Title"><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/NASA-green-buildings.aspx">Green tech: NASA brings space tech down to earth</a></h3> <p>NASA is getting into the green tech business, it seems, by using software designed for such things as the International Space Station and Mars Rover missions to control indoor energy systems.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://news.discovery.com/tech/nasa-builds-greenest-gov-building-ever.html" target="_blank">Discover.com asked Steve Zornetzer</a>, associate center director at NASA Ames, what was going on, and he explained how the stuff used to optimize outer space environments can just as well be used to track more mundane earth-bound energy sinks such as temperature, electricity, water and lights. </p> <p>It can be used to reduce the energy demands on solar panels when the sun don’t shine so much, for example, or to calculate what the air conditioning demands of a room might be at any given time of the day and control the temperature accordingly.</p> <p>A building that NASA is calling Sustainability Base (of course) will be the test site for all of this. Zornetzer expects it to be “the greenest, if not among the greenest, government buildings.”</p> <p>Given that all of government is under orders to cut back on energy use, them’s fighting words. I doubt that the Defense or Energy departments, to name just a few, will stand idly by and let that boast stand!</p> <p id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl2_ctl00_pAuthDate">Posted on <span class="date">Jan 20, 2010</span> at <abbr>12:03 PM</abbr><em><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/NASA-green-buildings.aspx#Comments">0 comments</a></em></a></p> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div> <h3 id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl3_ctl00_h3Title"><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/facial-imaging-osama-bin-laden-Gaspar-Llamazares.aspx">The FBI, a Spanish lawmaker and bin Laden</a></h3>  The FBI leaves a Spanish minister of parliament wondering why his picture was incorporated into a wanted poster of an international terrorist. <p>From the “Just what the @#!!*&# were they thinking?” department comes this story about how the FBI, lacking good sources for some of the uber-terrorist’s facial features, decided those of a Spanish member of parliament would be good enough.</p> <p>According to the Associated Press, the FBI put together <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100116/ap_on_re_eu/bin_laden_photo"><strong>a wanted poster of Osama bin Laden</strong></a> based on age-progressed images from those they had of him at an earlier date. Except they were missing what someone thought were good examples of such things as hair and facial wrinkles.</p> <p>A picture of Gaspar Llamazares, former head of Spain’s United Left coalition, was available on the Internet, so they used his features. But they forgot to ask Llamazares. Imagine the shock when the Spanish MP was informed, and there part of he was (part of him, anyway), pictured as one of the world’s most wanted villains.</p> <p>It would be laughable except that, as Llamazares himself pointed out, those are exactly the kinds of things that authorities use in biometric recognition systems. Llamazares could be facing a torrid time of questions and searches at airports and other travel points.</p> <p>A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7004715/FBI-admits-Spanish-politican-was-model-for-high-tech-Osama-bin-Laden-photo-fit.html" target="_blank"><strong>Daily Telegraph story</strong></a> says the FBI claims “cutting edge” technology is used for the pics, which are displayed on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://rewardsforjustice.net/" target="_blank"><strong>State Department’s Rewards for Justice Web site</strong></a>. But now you have to wonder.</p> <p>The question we have to ask is whether this was a one-off on the part of the FBI, or was it standard practice? If so, how many other innocent people's features are out there?</p> <p>Personally, most of my Internet pics come off looking like mug shots anyway. I don’t need the FBI to emphasize the point.</p> <p id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl3_ctl00_pAuthDate">Posted on <span class="date">Jan 19, 2010</span> at <abbr>10:48 AM</abbr><em><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/facial-imaging-osama-bin-laden-Gaspar-Llamazares.aspx#Comments">0 comments</a></em></a></p> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div> <h3 id="ctl23_lvBlogPosts_ctrl4_ctl00_h3Title"><a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/Blogs/Quick-Study/2010/01/power-grid-cybersecurity.aspx">DOE assembles team to tackle cybersecurity threats to power grid</a></h3> Speaking of the Obama Administration’s <a href="/web/20100124110210/http://fcw.com/gig/gig-shared/blogs/quick-study/2010/01/obama-cybersecurity-grades-csis.aspx"><strong>cybersecurity efforts</strong></a>, the Energy Department is doing its bit by splashing out more than $8 million to fund something called the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100124110210/http://e-center2.doe.gov/doebiz.nsf/d76fbc294818822885256d98006c63b6/a9adfa72d0730f74862576a40067bad8?OpenDocument" target="_blank"><strong>National Energy Sector Cyber Organization</strong></a>. <p>Apparently, this will be the country’s lead body in identifying the risks faced by the U.S. power grid, and will be tasked with coming up with ideas on how to secure emerging technologies such as the smart grid, which will use fiendishly clever IT to tie together everyone and everything that uses electric power.</p> <p>The ultimate goal is to make power distribution more efficient, and therefore cheaper. 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