The Full motion video Asset Management Engine (FAME™) integrates proven COTS products and practices from Harris’ commercial broadcast industry with the image processing, system integration, and security expertise we provide to our government customers. FAME was designed with input from government intelligence analysts, and is a collaborative platform that provides video, audio, and metadata coding, video analytics, and archive capabilities within a unified full motion video solution. Simultaneous motion imagery feeds from multiple sensor types can be ingested, annotated, discovered, exploited, and shared in real time. Discovery and dissemination of motion imagery products within bandwidth–challenged networks for situational awareness–enabled with products such as Harris AN/PRC–117G Falcon III® manpack radios–are supported with a thin web–based client for at–distance access and collaboration.

FAME, as deployed at Empire Challenge 2008, provided analysts the capability to select from among multiple live Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) feeds or prerecorded streams and to perform exploitation and dissemination in real time within a collaborative environment. Analysts could collaborate simultaneously to annotate the video with mission text chat, telestration, and audio. Annotations are saved as rich metadata and time-associated with the video for later search, retrieval, and publication to the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB). FAME met all objectives of the Motion Imagery pilot and clearly demonstrated the benefits of leveraging commercial broadcast technologies for government tactical needs.