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"I've spent a lot of time trying to explain,
to Dr. Etter [Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Science & Technology)],
what SEDRIS is. And that's sort of funny, because that assumes that I know
what SEDRIS is. Well I know enough about SEDRIS probably to make me dangerous,
but I do know that the capability that SEDRIS has to offer is certainly
something that we need. Certainly something that other agencies, not just
the DoD, within Government need. And you've already heard it goes beyond
just the Government that needs it. We're talking Industry, we're talking
a global need with regard to this kind of capabilty.
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But it does provide the critical infrastructure
that we're looking for, and it goes back to what we were looking for in
terms of rapid terrain, or rapid scenario generation -- it complements
what we're looking for in that capability. Further down, in terms of what
we're doing, I think the audience here is a good representation of the
Government-Industry team that's establishing that Industry base to be able
to do that.
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And perhaps unlike the experience that we had
with the High Level Architecture technology, where you could almost make
an argument that that was top-down driven -- meaning mandated down, and
you shall comply. What I see different in the way that we're going about
implementing the SEDRIS capability to bring that to the table, that's growing
from the bottom up. We're not having to see that. People are moving towards
that, NATO is moving towards it. When I've been to Korea, the Koreans are
moving towards that kind of technology -- it's International, it's National,
it's across the Departments."
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Colonel Crain
DMSO
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