Digital Battlespace
DARPA draws upon Adapx for C2 solution
Adapx has been awarded a $1.8m contract by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide advanced C2 speech and sketch interfaces for its Deep Green Program.
The contract, which includes the provision of Adapx’s Capturx system, was announced on 6 December but actually awarded in October.
The Deep Green Program aims to develop decision support systems that commanders can use to create and analyse potential courses of action. The previous two phases of the programme saw the development of the voice and written symbology, also provided by Adapx.
The contract aims to integrate Capturx into battle command systems, enabling commanders to create their own battle plans by ‘simply speaking and sketching their plans using standard military jargon or symbols’, it was explained.
Designed to be ‘faster for decisions and deployment’, Capturx was developed to make battle command easier for soldiers and commanders in an effort to reduce data entry obstacles: ‘You made a decision five minutes ago, and in ten minutes it could be wrong’, a company spokesman added.
Describing itself as a ‘global expert for speech and sketch’, Adapx claims to provide easier interfaces which require less training, and avoid the ‘clunky interface’ commonplace in legacy systems. The company also provides a pen and paper option using special pens for those who use hard copy for mission planning.
The news follows a contract award to the company in October from the US Army Research Laboratory’s Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) for the integration of speech and sketch capabilities into battlefield simulators. This aims to ‘streamline course-of–action simulations’ for small unit commanders, which allow them to predict potential courses of action.
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