Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing the technologies to conduct Mosaic Warfare. These are the tools and infrastructure to enable dynamic composition and operation of adaptive, disaggregated systems of systems architectures. When applied to sensing, the tools of Mosaic enable sensing to be conducted as a “team sport” in which we can move away from expensive, complex, exquisite, multi-function monolithic sensors to highly distributed, hyper-specialized sensors in which each individual sensor addresses only a small part of an overall function. This specialization enables deployment of sensors in greater numbers and smaller, cheaper platforms. The presentation will discuss how DARPA is implementing Mosaic, the implications for sensing, and potential dual-use applications in the commercial sector.
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