VIRAT, MITRE's Military Streaming Video, Is Even Better Than Hulu

DARPA called up MITRE, perhaps the most mysterious of our 50 Most Innovative Companies, to help vet possible contractors for VIRAT, the Video and Image Retrieval for Analysis Tool. Says a senior official at MITRE, "VIRAT is about getting critical video content to the right analyst at the right time."

VIRAT is seeking to embed video and photo hardware into unmanned planes like the MQ-9 Reaper. Planes like the Reaper are remotely controlled, so there needs to be a pretty high-speed and...