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• Subject: Cursor on Target
• From: "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:12:05 -0800

hhalpin@i... wrote
"Still, if someone was going to use XML in some capacity to shoot missles
or aid in flying airplanes (which, given the increasing variety of things
XML is used for, could happen soon!)"

Fait accompli.

"The advent of Cursor on Target is a fundamental augmentation of existing
machine language standards," he continued. "Each battlefield system contains a
myriad of data that takes time to learn and understand. CoT contains a kind of
abstract of the key data that's common across the user communities. It provides
a lightweight, simplified common interface language that contains the important
elements. That means it can be quickly read, or understood, by the next user
community in the chain.

CoT isn't just a drawing board initiative, however, but is already at war and
scoring impressive successes. Developed by a team comprising ESC, MITRE, Air
Force Special Operations Command, Air Force Research Laboratory and the Navy,
CoT was initially designated for deployment to special forces units to provide
improved time-critical targeting. Tests have shown that sensor-to-shooter paths
enabled with CoT software improve the speed of the process by nearly 70 percent,
while also significantly increasing firepower accuracy."

The complete article is in the MIT Online archive at
http://www.mit-kmi.com/archive_article.cfm?DocID=596



======== Ken North ===========
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