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Darpa's Plan X Tech Visualizes Battle's Cyber Effects
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Plan X program will help make cyberoperations tools and their capabilities more available to the military.
Credit: DARPA
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Plan X program aims to create technologies to help the Defense Department plan for, conduct, and assess cyberwarfare.
Announced in 2012, Plan X will help make cyberoperations tools and their capabilities more available to common military. The program also aims to quantify cybereffects "so the military understands how [such effects] work and what the collateral damage could be," and another goal is to provide cyber situational awareness globally, says Plan X manager Frank Pound.
Plan X is testing an advanced three-dimensional (3D) mission-planning technology to create a real-time, color, 360-degree, interactive 3D holographic display. The touch table display enables each 3D holographic object to project in each direction the same amount of light projected by an original object for 360-degree viewing.
DARPA also recently demonstrated a Plan X virtual-reality head-mounted display that puts warfighters in cyberspace and helps them track adversaries, friendly forces, and mission resources.
"We want to make it that easy for the military to use--to filter information and look at different routes and alternatives for routes and see where there's a lot of traffic, just like with Google maps," Pound says.
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