Embedded Net -Centric Instrumentation - Anyone seen my keys?

Have you ever found yourself searching for your keys o nly to find them in your hand? The T&E infrastructure can serve as a springboard for rapid integr ation of advancing technology. Today, we may very well find that the keys to embedded net -centric instrumentation on legacy and currently planned systems are within our reach. This paper describes the opportunities offered by new technologies afforded by the T&E infrastructure and an emerging stan dard for solid state recording, IRIG 106 Chapter 10, to help achieve the goal of real -time mission monitoring. These T&E capabilities can be leve raged through standardization to reduce time -critical targeti ng and the find, fix, track, target, engage, and a ssess (F2T2EA) cycle and help provide persistent ISR capabilities .