Research Summaries

Back NPS Joint Interagency Field Experimentation

Fiscal Year 2019
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Information Sciences
Investigator(s) Buettner, Jr., Raymond R.
Sponsor Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD)
Summary The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) project is the current implementation of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) field experimentation efforts that began in 2003 with the Surveillance and Target Acquisition Network (STAN). JIFX is a year-round program anchored by quarterly field events. The purpose of JIFX is to identify emerging technologies with national security applications, to inform requirements, enhance the development of these capabilities and to avoid technological surprise that these technologies may represent. JIFX accomplishes this by creating collaborative learning environments integrating government, industry and academia centered on experimentation with emerging technology. JIFX provides the most general, and easiest to access, entry to more focused Department of Defense prototyping and experimentation activities as well as potential acquisition channels. JIFX will also create and support data collection and sharing mechanisms for the DoD experimentation and prototyping community. JIFX uses a cooperative funding model where multiple sponsors contribute with each meeting their specific mission objectives while all enjoy the economy of scale from having a single execution entity and co-located physical venue.
Keywords Autonomous systems Autonomy network control system
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