Blackbearnh writes "One of the biggest problem that a platoon on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan faces is that when a new unit cycles in, all the street-sense and wisdom




activity gift ukflying of the old unit is lost. Knowing where insurgents like to plant IEDs, or even which families have a lot of household disputes, can spell the unlikeness between living and dying. In retroaction to this, DARPA created TIGR, the Tactical Ground Reporting System. big as much on the ground in active warzones as in a lab, TIGR lets platoons access the latest disciple and drone imagery in an easy-to-use map based interface, as well as recording their autobiography in the field and accessing the reports of other troops. In this O'Reilly Radar interview, two of the people amenable for the evolution of TIGR talk about the intel issues that troops face in hostile territory, the challenges of deploying new hi tech* meant for combat areas, the particular tricks that they had to employ to make TIGR work over less-than-robust soldierly networking, and how TIGR is impacting platoons in their day to day operations"

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