SensorWeb 2.0 2008 R&D 100 Award Winner
It is official: SensorWeb 2.0 has been recognized as one of the most technologically significant products introduced in the marketplace over the past year by the independent judging panel and editors of R&D Magazine.
The Award ceremony will take place Oct 16, 2008 in Chicago. This is a huge effort. We have some big contributors on the team including NASA GSFC, Ames, JPL and universities such as Maryland, George Mason, UAH…and let’s not forget Northrop Grumann. Congratulations to all.
Thanks to the Open GeoSpatial Consortium’s help with standard development. This is tedious work but nonetheless important.
This is far from being over for us though. The next step is to integrate DOD and civilian assets into a larger cross-domain Sensorweb for emergency response. We have a big demo coming in October… Stand-by for more later.
Working together through seamless interoperability, we can make a difference and save lives.
This would not have been possible without the precursor effort at the Naval Research Laboratory with the Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC) designed to support what is known today as the Operational Responsive Space. Thanks to Greg Glaros, the visionary at the Office of Force Transformation now heading Synexxus, and Michael Hurley at NRL.
Note: The first R&D 100 Awards were given in 1963. Many entries over the years have become household names, including Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), lab on a chip (1996), and HDTV (1998).
Winners of the 2008 R&D 100 Awards appear in this month’€™s issue of R&D Magazine.