BigPicture Questions Primary How can we develop a

Big-Picture Questions • Primary: How can we develop a demonstration scenario that is militarily relevant, is technically intriguing, and advances research? • How can we connect our internal technologyfocused metrics to external scenario-focused objectives? • How can we compare our sensor web approach to techniques already in use by the military? • How can we avoid the classic DARPA endgame, in which technology is abandoned, or ideas are the only results carried forward?

Detail Questions • How should we model the enemy’s ability to interfere with our sensor webs? • How can we reintroduce componentization and designtime composability to the NEST program, and demonstrate it at the Capstone? • How can NEST embrace multiple sensing modalities, heterogenous platforms, and wider systems? • How well can our D/C/T techniques distinguish between single entities, and multiple entities moving as a group? • Who will pay for the Telos motes, if they become the Capstone platform?

Action Items • Put together a timeline that reaches August ’ 05. • Create a breadth of experiments to study the NEST technologies. • Develop a taxonomy of metrics and targets, covering technology, effectiveness, and operational value. • Contact military customers and develop real-world scenarios to help guide the development of the demonstration. • Define an allowable range of enemy activities • Realize the integrated XSM-Telos platform. • Define a software component architecture, and publish real specifications to enable collaboration. • Study tracking algorithms for multiple entities moving as groups.