Mission critical Flash
NATO started using a Flex application for their Mission Support System in 2007. I saw it in action once… but if I told you about it I would probably end up in a dark dungeon 20 floors below the NATO HQ in Brussels. During MAX in San Francisco in 2008 Peter Martin and Mansour Raad from Adobe Consulting and ESRI discussed the application. The presentation (available on Adobe TV) gives you an idea of how NATO is using Flex.
Today, ISS announced that under the sponsorship of the Air Force Research Laboratory and direction of Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) they developed and deployed an application to enable critical infrastructure monitoring to the White House Situation Room.
The ISS team developed an application for deployment on the SPAWAR touch table framework, leveraging touch technologies to provide insight into the current status of various elements of critical infrastructure across the United States. The application provides users such as the President and his staff with the ability to view the status of any of thousands of pieces of critical infrastructure with a single tap on a touch surface.
According to Rob Rogers, Vice President of National Systems at ISS, “The touch table application for the White House presented many interesting challenges to the team. The application is really a mash-up of technologies including the ISS-developed Web Enabled Temporal Analysis System framework for data access and aggregation combined with a custom touch interface developed by ISS, utilizing the Adobe Flex framework, finally sending results to Google Earth. The President, Vice President, and the Secretary of Homeland Security have used the application and have expressed positive feedback.”
I doubt that I will ever get to see that application…
Flash on!
President Obama honors Adobe’s founding fathers
President Obama today named nine eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, and four inventors and one company as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. Among them John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Adobe’s founding fathers.
They will be receiving the award at a White House ceremony on October 7th. John and Chuck are receiving the award for “their pioneering contributions that spurred the desktop publishing revolution and for changing the way people create and engage with information and entertainment across multiple mediums including print, Web and video.”
More info:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Honors-Nations-Top-Scientists-and-Innovators/
http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/2009sep17.htm
Obama uses Adobe Connect Pro to cut travel costs
Just a few weeks ago, I already reported on the White House using Flash for their live streaming. Today, the news broke that the White House is also using Adobe Connect Pro to cut travel costs. President Obama himself made his first appearance in the Connect room last week.
With Adobe Connect Pro, they can greatly reduce travel costs because they don’t have to fly everyone to one location. Anyone with an internet connected PC and Flash Player installed can join the meeting from wherever they are. With Connect Pro, you can even completely customize the look and feel of your online meeting room. With the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service, you can even build your own Connect experience and/or add it to your own application.
Great choice, Mr. President! Flash on!
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