BAE Systems Helps DARPA Test Space Technologies to Protect Against Emerging Threats
November 14 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has
awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $12.8 million to develop
an innovative space evaluation and analysis testbed to support the
development, integration, evaluation, and analysis of advanced
space enterprise command and control (C2) tools and capability
technologies.
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Under a contract with DARPA, BAE Systems
will develop an innovative testbed to help the military quickly
evaluate and integrate technologies for space command and control.
(Photo: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA))
The U.S. military must be able to quickly establish situational
awareness and execute operations in space. Within the space domain,
many thousands of objects that are moving at extreme velocities
must be tracked and managed. This information must be fused with
land, air, sea, cyber, defense, and intelligence data in order to
make critical, time-sensitive decisions to protect space assets
while supporting terrestrial missions.
“Military commanders must have superior space domain awareness
in order to quickly assess, plan, and execute operations in this
increasingly complex environment,” said Mike Penzo, Director of
Ground Resiliency and Analytics at BAE Systems. “The Hallmark
testbed is designed to help the military quickly evaluate and
integrate technologies for space C2.”
BAE Systems will utilize its vast experience in space domain
awareness as it works to design and develop a state-of-the-art,
flexible, scalable, and secure enterprise software architecture
that would become the backbone of technology development and
experimentation. The architecture would facilitate the creation of
a testbed facility — the Space Enterprise Analysis Capability
(SEAC) — that would support the modelling of current and future
space situational awareness and C2 technologies. The SEAC would
also enable realistic, scenario-based exercises for testing space
C2 technologies against sophisticated emerging threats.
BAE Systems’ testbed would support live data feeds from diverse
sources and provide strong security and data protection for varying
levels of classification, in addition to external interfaces to
support air, cyber, land, and sea environments. To meet the goals
of the Hallmark program, the BAE Systems team plans to host
exercises at the SEAC to collect metrics for Hallmark’s cognitive
evaluation team, as well as identify new and improved tools and
technologies for potential future use by the Joint Space Operations
Center and the National Space Defense Center.
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