CG², a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quantum3D, has announced that software developed under a Phase II contract from the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) under the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program is being employed in the fall Air Assault Expeditionary Force (AAEF) C4ISR On-The-Move experiment at Ft. Benning, GA.

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The command and control in 3-D (C3D) technology demonstration combines FBCB2 VMF messaging, a Quantum3D GeoScapeSE COTS McKenna MOUT geospecific terrain database, high-resolution digital map imagery and MIL-STD-2525B symbology into an innovative C4ISR application designed to provide warfighters with an enhanced, real-time view of the battlefield environment by including 3-D terrain and culture combined with an intuitive, game-style 2-D/3-D user interface that is designed for use in high-stress environments across multiple tactical platforms.

The graphical rendering engine that is used for the technology demonstration is based on the Quantum3-D cross-platform IData COTS visual computing framework, which in-cludes the IData human machine interface (HMI) suite, IData3-D integrated real-time 3-D scene manager and IDataMAP digital map components.

The CG² C3D application provides an enhanced situational awareness picture based on the VMF messaging standard, the data backbone used by FBCB2. Internally, the C3D application features a flexible C2 backbone based on IData's Named Memory technology to communicate data from the VMF message parser to the user interface, which allows the C3D application to be used with many different messaging standards.

In addition, the C3D application's use of IData allows for the rapid creation of tailored HMI elements to represent the data available from various C2 data interfaces. This flexibility makes the C3D system reusable and easily configurable to display data from the wide array of data sources used for C4ISR systems.

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