Maritime Persistent Surveillance and Awareness (MPSA)
Abstract
The Maritime Persistent Surveillance and Awareness (MPSA) program developed an extensible battle management automation capability to provide persistent surveillance and situational awareness to protect naval forces against overwhelming threats. MPSA used layered and distributed sensing, and added data from all sources for the non-traditional areas of infrastructure, socio-political developments and economic indicators. These systems enable timely and coordinated decision-making and vastly improved situational awareness under uncertainty for naval commanders. MPSA enables intelligent deployment of sensors and network infrastructures to protect sea-based assets through effective cross-platform and multi-mission fusion and resource management with focus on stand-off and elusive threats. MPSA departed from previous approaches in assessing the operational environment in that it will not rely solely upon military indicators, but also expanded understanding to include national infrastructure, socio-political, and economic indicators to better assess trends and threat development. The program is transitioning to the Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- d970dc0f55c721788d689e10d7e9e618