Maritime Auto Super Track enhance Reporting (MASTER)
Abstract
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validated the capability need for MASTER in FY 2007. The initial goal of MASTER is to demonstrate a set of technologies with associated Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), which provides automatic tracking of ship traffic using both unclassified and classified methods and which will provide a tangible improvement of United States maritime domain awareness on a global-basis. The MASTER JCTD also provides a common set of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) to the Intelligence Community (IC) that will allow adoption of this new capability across the IC. The primary outputs and efficiencies to be demonstrated in the Military Utility Assessment (MUA) are to develop and deploy a persistent maritime awareness capability for the analyst, warfighter and decision maker that enables: (1) significant increase in worldwide, multi-INT vessel tracks using information sources from SCI/Secret/Unclassified-levels and dissemination of these "Super Tracks", to operational users at the JWICS and Secret security levels; (2) percent decrease in the time required for an intelligence analyst to assemble the maritime awareness picture of ships using track , cargo and people information ; (3) percent increase in the ability of an analyst to determine ship threat profile (friend or foe) based on ship track, cargo and people information at the JWICS level; (5) percent increase in number of maritime awareness entities (ship, people, cargo, infrastructure) and the ability to manually and automatically fuse the data. The JCTD Residuals include: 1) Multi-INT fusion for worldwide MDA tracks with associated metadata; 2) web portal at the JWICS level; 3) SOA at JWICS level; 4) Alarms/alerts notification methodology; 5) Operationally tested CONOP for a 24/7 worldwide capability. MASTER is a three-year JCTD under the sponsorship of US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and U.S. Navy, with completion of development and demonstration by the end of FY 2009 and transition to the IC through Office of Naval Intelligence beginning in FY 2009. The lead Service is Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 6e7a1f6820709c58dc5cf9e11b15e558