This is a proposal to integrate Photon--an established, USAF-sponsored collaboration platform--into ATAK. Photon is a cross-device, cross-network software-hardware hybrid. It delivers truly seamless, many-to-many collaboration and situational awareness to every screen, in every application, at any scale: single-user workstations, conference rooms, theater-scale operations centers, and mobile devices held by on-the-ground operators. It works by turning all of an enterprises electronic displaysvideo walls, desktop monitors, and handheld devicesinto a single, unified collaboration workspace. Users have access to any visual asset in their environment, including images, videos, virtual machines, and more. Photon users share content with each other by dragging individual assets from their own devices display and drop them onto the displays of their teammates using a web-based enterprise map. Multiple sites can be included in the environment, allowing remote teammates to share a live view of information as though they were colocated. This I can see what you see, and you can see what I see experience dramatically accelerates the decision loop for tactical operations. It is a far simpler approach to collaboration, data integration, and information sharing than the traditional methods. It is more cost-effective. And our users love it.Collaboration,Information Sharing,remote collaboration,situational awareness,mdc2,multi-domain command & control,screensharing,multi-domain collaboration
