This applied research initiative will develop and mature technologies to manage sensors, processing and communications to produce timely, highly valued information that is relevant to the mission being conducted.
Autonomous persistent tactical surveillance is focused on producing timely required information. The program has three thrusts: mobile autonomous Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) to C2 synchronization, autonomous informationbased surveillance control, and contextual enterprise information. Each thrust will mature and develop technologies that enable the production of information that is timely and complete as defined by the mission.
Mobile autonomous ISR to C2 synchronization will enable a capability to predict the value of, and supply, information supporting agile and tactical warfighting units, while optimizing the use of organic sensing and analysis capabilities in conjunction with enterprise sources.
Autonomous information-based surveillance control will provide capabilities to semantically model and geospatially represent what is known and what needs to be known so that sensor managers can task sensors to areas where the value of information, measured as a difference between what needs to be known and what is known, is the highest.
Contextual enterprise information expands the discovery of sensors and data as well as the discovery and production of information to the theater and national levels while simultaneously synchronizing the enterprise and tactical data stores.
The program will conduct a series of experiments in an increasingly relevant environment to demonstrate progress toward program technical and capability goals. An open architecture will allow new services to work well with existing programs of record.