BAE Systems Selected by DARPA to Create Autonomy Software for Multi-Domain Mission Planning
04 December 2019 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop software that
will enable semi-autonomous multi-domain mission planning. The
technology will be designed for military operators to leverage
battlespace resources from across various domains, such as space,
air, land, and sea, for more effective, efficient missions.
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BAE Systems will develop software for
military operators that will enable semi-autonomous multi-domain
mission planning. (Photo: BAE Systems, Inc.)
Military operators currently use manual processes to assess
availability and coordinate use of sensors, communications,
weapons, and other assets across domains. DARPA’s Adapting
Cross-Domain Kill-Webs (ACK) program will seek to help operators
adapt to dynamic situations with software technology that
automatically identifies the best options. In response, BAE
Systems’ FAST Labs™ research and development organization, along
with teammate Carnegie Mellon University, will create software
called Multi-domain Adaptive Request Service (MARS).
MARS aims to help operators make informed decisions by
automatically identifying available capabilities across domains,
and then rapidly assessing the costs and benefits to use those
capabilities when adjusting mission tasks. The software also
includes a visual interface that will allow the exploration of
available asset options, helping operators arrive at the best
course of action to deliver the desired effect on targets.
“Multi-domain mission planning is complex because it involves a
tremendous amount of distributed variables such as domains,
systems, resources, and manned and unmanned platforms,” said Chris
Eisenbies, product line director of the Autonomy, Controls, and
Estimation group at BAE Systems. “Our hope is that MARS will
provide warfighters with the ability to automatically leverage the
resources they need and quickly determine the most effective way to
accomplish their mission no matter what type of battlespace they
are operating in.”
MARS builds on BAE Systems’ robust autonomy portfolio and
20-year history pioneering autonomy technology. Work on the ACK
program, valued at $3.1 million, is being performed at the
company’s facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts and Arlington,
Virginia.
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