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 ( 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.
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 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design,
 development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced
 technology systems, products and services.
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