A new maritime test bed is enabling Lockheed Martin to demonstrate data fusion, predictive analytics and other technologies in naval settings.
The software test platform is designed to mimic different naval environments for validation of intelligence, communications and sensor systems before their introduction into an operational environment, the company said.
"The Navy is confronted with unique challenges that require superior, faster intelligence sharing," said Dr. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR for Lockheed Martin's Information Systems and Global Solutions. "The Maritime Test Bed provides a cost effective, risk reduction platform that can be used for realistic testing to demonstrate what is possible – with the end goal of providing real-time, decision-quality intelligence for the Navy."
Lockheed Martin said the maritime test bed has an open standards software infrastructure. In testing highly sensitive technologies, it can be linked to the Secret Defense Research and Engineering Network and the Defense Research and Engineering Network.
Recently, it was used do demonstrate how the U.S. Navy could fuse simulated Aegis radar data with other integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensor information for a comprehensive picture of a battlespace bycollecting, analyzing and processing the data and then distributing it to simulated at-sea and onshore platforms.
