Data fusion applications for military and civilian purposes developed on DND/LM Canada decision support testbed

Abstract

Since 1991, the research and development (R&D) group at Lockheed Martin Canada (LM Canada) has been developing and demonstrating technologies which will provide observe-orient-decide-act (OODA) decision making capabilities/tools in naval and airborne command and control (C2) for application on Canadian Patrol Frigates (CPF) and Canada's CP-140 (Aurora) fixed wing aircraft. Over the last three years LM Canada has also established a generic expert system infrastructure and has demonstrated that it is suitable for integrating these decision making technologies into real-time command and control systems (CCSs). This infrastructure has proven to be very useful not only in the defence applications like CPF and Aurora, but also in LM Canada diversification efforts, specifically in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and remote sensing. The paper describes the infrastructure, the generic testbed for decision support and the data fusion applications that have been implemented and are under development within this testbed for military and civilian purposes.