Joint Multi-Mission Electro-Optical System (JMMES)
Abstract
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validated the capability need for JMMES in FY 2007. The objective of JMMES is to demonstration and transition airborne sensors and automated processing for automatic detection of items of interest for Joint Service, Coalition, and Interagency partners. JMMES will demonstrate use of advanced multi-spectral sensors in an aircraft turret compatible with existing turret mounts in US Navy, US Army, Drug Enforcement Agency, and British and Canadian aircraft, as well as future planned unmanned air systems. The project will develop and demonstrate automatic processing and automated operator cueing for targets such as submarines, mines, targets under trees, illicit crops, and search-and-rescue targets at sea. The primary outputs and efficiencies are: (1) ability of JMMES to recognize targets of interest, in terms of (a) percent of auto detections and auto cues that are relevant, (b) distance error of auto detect and auto cue reports, (c) timeliness of reports (seconds) to decision makers; and (2) ability of JMMES to defeat denial and deception efforts, in terms of (a) percent of denial and deception efforts defeated, (b) where and when JMMES applies (operating environments, seasons, time of day, range, etc.), (c) percent of time operable during missions, and (d) reliability and logistic supportrequirements. JMMES is sponsored by U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Transition activities began in FY 2007, leading to likely transition to program of record in FY 2012, a two-year slip in original program of record plan. Budget Activity (BA4) provided a funding bridge to the Navy transition Program of Record in FY 2012. The lead Service is U.S. Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- ab6f36492503a7707f134cbe2b5a8e00