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-The goal of the High-Level Information Fusion (HLIF) Panel Discussion is to present contemporary HLIF advances and developments to determine unsolved grand challenges and issues. The discussion will address the issues between low-level (signal processing and object state estimation and characterization) and high-level information fusion (control, situational understanding, and relationships to the environment). Specific areas of interest include modeling (situations, environments), representations (semantic, knowledge, and complex), systems design (scenario-based, user-based, distributedagent) The HLIF panel discussion's goal is to highlight the unsolved problems and concerns to motivate the information fusion community towards systems-level solutions. The panelists' expert perspectives are based on three areas: (1) previous panel discussions and summaries, (2) an integrated list of HLIF challenges, and (3) companion papers presented at the Fusion2010 conference (note we switch to Fusion10 to refer to the conference). Previous Related Panel DiscussionsPanel discussions provide a valuable resource to the community to overview the current techniques and provide areas of concern for future research. Previous Fusion Conference panel discussion papers related to HLIF include knowledge representation (Fusion05) [7], resource management coordination with situation and threat assessment (Fusion06) [8, 9, 10], agent-based design (Fusion07) [11], and HLIF challenges (Fusion08) [12]. Three panel discussions were conducted at Fusion09 without papers: Many of the authors of this Fusion10 HLIF panel coordinated on previous publications, but continual refinement of HLIF contemporary are desired. The panel discussion follows from a day-long event special session. There are most likely other papers at Fusion10 that are related that would validate good questions from the audience to the panelists. Many of the participants to the special session would be encouraged to voice their opinions and questions to the moderated panel.

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