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Lockheed Martin to Transition Technology That Dramatically Improves Situation Awareness in Maritime Domains
CHERRY HILL, N.J., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Advanced
Technology Laboratories (ATL) $1.24 million for phase III of the Fast
Connectivity for Coalitions and Agents Program (Fast C2AP).
Fast C2AP is a Web-accessible suite of software tools that allows U.S.
Navy watchstanders to compose and launch intelligent software agents to
improve situation awareness in maritime domains. The suite is a stand-alone
component and uses external inputs from web-based sources and applications
as well as from maritime databases. Phase III will fund software upgrades
and transition Fast C2AP this year to several U.S. Navy commands.
Fast C2AP began two years ago as an applied research initiative to
examine the composition and application of agents in dynamic, operational
environments. During Phases I and II, ATL with Naval Undersea Warfare
Center developed and installed progressively more sophisticated releases of
the software at U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet Theater Maritime Fusion Center
(TMFC), Naples, Italy, where watchstanders reported marked improvement in
situational awareness of the Mediterranean maritime domain.
The NATO Component Commander Maritime Operations Center used Fast C2AP
during a recent NATO maritime exercise. For two weeks watchstanders
monitored merchant ships, fishing boats, cruise ships and warships
transiting the Mediterranean Sea. Results showed that Fast C2AP and
associated software improved by two orders of magnitude the number of
tracks humans could process and that agents effectively helped them manage
overwhelming amounts of actionable data for intelligence centers.
As a result of Fast C2AP's performance, Admiral Henry G. Ulrich III,
Commander U.S. Naval Forces Europe, recommended its transition to a
"Program of Record" to ensure continued engineering and programmatic
support.
ATL will transition Fast C2AP to the U.S. Navy Office of Program
Manager, Warfare-Command and Control (PMW-150) and to Second Fleet
facilities. The TMFC-using an earlier version of Fast C2AP-will receive the
Phase III upgrade in November.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000
people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design,
development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced
technology systems, products and services.
For additional information on Lockheed Martin Corporation, visit our
website: www.lockheedmartin.com
SOURCE Lockheed Martin
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