Joint Multi-Mission Electro-Optic Sys. (JMMES)
Abstract
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council validated the capability need for JMMES in FY 2007. The outcome of JMMES is demonstration and transition of airborne sensors and automated processing for automatic detection of items of interest for Joint Service, Coalition, and Interagency partners. The JMMES project 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 to be demonstrated in JMMES Military Utility Assessments 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 support requirements. JMMES is a 3-year project sponsored by U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Southern Command. Initial capabilities will be demonstrated and operated in FY 2007, with demonstrations against additional targets with additional aircraft types in FY 2008 and FY 2009. Transition activities began in FY 2007, leading to firm transition to programs of record. The lead Service is U.S. Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- f8eed406ab3e717e293d5cc2d0bf9e78