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 technology-focused 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 design-time 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.