US Army RDECOM Mobile Information Distribution & Access-control System (MIDAS) Program

摘要

The MIDAS program was created in an effort to provide the warfighter with a mobile low cost and highly capable distributed multimedia compute environment that leverages capabilities, products and services from commercial sector, and specifically the Home Land Security domain. Sponsored by the US Army TARDEC's National Automotive Center (NAC), the program seeks to quickly and cost effectively provide the warfighter and those peacekeepers that may be deployed in regions of the world that lack basic communications and power infrastructures, with a rapidly deployable (i.e., vehicle-based) broadband and secure communications infrastructure, and the existing 'nation building,' 'peacekeeping,' and 'first responder' tools and solutions that will provide unprecedented capabilities to Homeland Defense (HLD) and HLS field units. MIDAS will be designed to support the critical information and computer services needs of peacekeepers, whether under the auspices of the Departments of Homeland Defense (DHD), Homeland Security (DHS), or the agencies of our coalition partners. It will also seek to provide greater interoperability within and between currently available HLD, HLS, and coalition systems -- on a global scale. MIDAS will be deployed and demonstrated on military vehicles, and will provide the sustainable and flexible foundation upon which our next generation distributed Logistics applications can be built.