RAF FAIRFORD, England \u2014 As military demand for data processing and distribution grows, General Atomics wants to provide users a one-stop shop for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection, analytics and tasking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrew Majchrowicz, project manager for automation, autonomy and artificial intelligence at General Atomics, told C4ISRNET July 16 the technology development company is integrating two tools into its flagship ISR software platform and plans to deliver the system in October. Japan will be its first customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs our platform continues to grow, we\u2019re bringing in more and more data, and now it\u2019s about how we\u2019re utilizing that data,\u201d he said during an interview at the Royal International Air Tattoo here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat good is it showing an end user 3,000 data points without telling them what it is that they\u2019re seeing?\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s where all of this is going is providing the analytics on those large-volume datasets, providing correlation services, giving you the information to seek out anomalous behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first of the two capabilities, Optix, can analyze large swaths of data drawn from multiple sources to assist decision-making for military or government users. General Atomics picked up Optix last year when it acquired Commonwealth Computer Research, a Charlottesville, Va.-based software engineering company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C. Mark Brinkley, a spokesman for General Atomics, said U.S. government customers are using Optix today, but declined to identify which agencies. By bringing the capability into its baseline ISR software platform \u2014 called System for Tactical Archival, Retrieval and Exploitation, or STARE \u2014 the company can provide a more holistic service to its users, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
General Atomics is also integrating a mission-tasking tool called Metis, which Majchrowicz described as \u201cUber for ISR. \u201d Like a standard rideshare app, Metis can \u201cdrop a pin\u201d at the site of an anomaly and then task various ISR services needed at that location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using a hypothetical military investigation into a ship that turned off its transponder, he demonstrated Metis\u2019 ability to at the mark the location of the vessel, create a tasking and assign an aircraft to examine the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company is developing a third tool, Multi-Mission Control (MMC), that allows a user to manage multiple aerial systems in response to taskings from Metis. MMC can provide routes and control specific characteristics like altitude, speed and loiter type. Majchrowicz said there\u2019s not a precise timeline for when General Atomics will integrate it with STARE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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