Maritime Test Bed for sensor capability testing
Lockheed Martin has recently demonstrated how its Maritime Test Bed can help the US Navy test sensor intelligence capabilities, the company announced on 19 February.
The demonstration aimed to show how the test bed can help the navy accelerate the testing of various sensor intelligence capabilities in maritime and joint warfighting environments.
Advanced sensing, data integration, decision support, electromagnetic support operations, enhanced targeting and fire control and non-kinetic fires were identified as capability gaps in the Navy PEO C4I's Gaps for Science & Technology memorandum.
Lockheed said that its test bed used data fusion, workflow automation, and electromagnetic visualisation tools to ingest various types of simulated radar, communications and signals intelligence. It then depicted the emerging tactical situation using this information.
During the demonstration, the test bed successfully mimicked sea and ashore naval environments and expedited the complete intelligence cycle, from the initial intercept of the signals to the sharing of a fused tactical picture across multiple naval platforms.
Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR, information systems and global solutions, Lockheed Martin, said: 'Using our test bed, we showed how quickly a variety of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities can be validated to expedite the navy's ability to process and control that intelligence.'
In the future, the team will refine additional capabilities into the test bed to match the maritime environment and integrate relevant competencies into navy Programs of Record. The test bed will also allow classified information to be securely integrated and shared or declassified using a Lockheed Martin cross-domain solution already deployed across the Department of Defense.
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