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Army, Industry Computer Scientists Gather For 'hackathon'
Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance recently held the first Network Science Research Laboratory Hackathon.
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Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NSCTA) recently held the first hackathon at the Adelphi Laboratory Center in Maryland.
The Network Science Research Laboratory Hackathon aimed to integrate applications that represent NSCTA's multi-layered components in such a way as to push data points from a communication emulator called the Extendable Mobile Ad-hoc Network Emulator to a social/cognitive network component called Virtual Battlespace 3, and a scalable role/group/goal-based traffic patterns simulator called AlgoLink.
"This alliance of government, industry, and academic partners is funded by ARL to understand the commonalities among the social, information, and communication networks in a military-relevant context," says ARL's Lisa Scott.
She notes throughout the hackathon, participants used a simulation platform employed by the U.S. Army to create scenarios for training. "We can now run multiple experiments with difference manipulations so that we can measure the effects these manipulations will have on the overall mission performance," Scott says.
The hackathon culminated with teams attempting to complete the given set of tasks while addressing unexpected technical challenges.
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