keV) 21,760 cm2 Energy Resolution 85 -175 eV FWHM Time Resolution 100 ns Collimator 4 arcmin FWHM Background Rate 2.2 c/s Count Rate on Crab (0.2-10 keV) 148,000 Large Area Detector (LAD) Energy Range 2-30 keV Effective Area (cm^2 @ 10 keV) 51,000 cm2 Energy Resolution 200 -300 eV FWHM Time Resolution 10 µs Collimator 1° FWHM Count Rate on Crab (2-30 keV) 156,000 Background Rate 822 c/s (5 mcrab)

XIPE, the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer, is a mission dedicated to X-ray Astronomy. At the time of writing XIPE is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4). It promises to reopen the polarimetry window in high energy Astrophysics after more than 4 decades thanks to a detector that efficiently exploits the photoelectric effect and to X-ray optics with large effective area. XIPE uniqueness is time-spectrallyspatially-resolved X-ray polarimetry as a breakthrough in high energy astrophysics and fundamental physics. Indeed the payload consists of three Gas Pixel Detectors at the focus of three X-ray optics with a total effective area larger than one XMM mirror but with a low weight. The payload is compatible with the fairing of the Vega launcher. XIPE is designed as an observatory for X-ray astronomers with 75 % of the time dedicated to a Guest Observer competitive program and it is organized as a consortium across Europe with main contributions from

During mission execution in military applications, the US Army Training and Doctrine Command Pamphlet 525-66 Battle Command and Battle Space Awareness capabilities prescribe expectations that networked teams will perform in a reliable manner under changing mission requirements, varying resource availability and reliability, resource faults, etc. In this paper, a command and control structure is presented that allows for computer-aided execution of the networked team decision-making process, control of force resources, shared-resource dispatching, and adaptability to change based on battlefield conditions. A mathematically justified networked computing environment is provided called the Discrete Event Control (DEC) framework. DEC has the ability to provide the logical connectivity among all team participants, including mission planners, field commanders, warfighters, and robotic platforms. The proposed data management tools are developed and demonstrated with a simulation study on a realistic military ambush attack. The results show that the tasks of multiple missions are correctly sequenced in real time, and that shared resources are suitably assigned to competing tasks under dynamically changing conditions without conflicts and bottlenecks.

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