There is so much information that has to be digested, and each server has some part of the information. The decision maker is correlating this information by looking at individual servers that have parts of the total picture. Initiative participants are exploring several technologies to fulfill this requirement. One possibility is a portable data wall or glass panels. In addition, the environment could include touch screen, laser pointer, radio frequency and speech recognition capabilities.
Display technologies are only the top layer of the effort.
JIVE is more than the showplace for the resultant data from processes and procedures that the other initiatives are investigating. The layers go much deeper. According to Lt. Col. Kevin Smith, USAF, deputy commander, C2B, the environment being examined in the current initiative may not include three-dimensional capabilities, however, and the evolution of JIVE will provide information aggregation and drive up the level of capabilities. By pooling the data sources, commanders will be able to see the total picture, and the sum of the parts will be greater than the whole because commanders could see the relationship between data. That capability in itself provides additional information, he adds.