Fri, Aug 28, 2009
FAA Certification Receive For Modified GIII
Warfighters will receive critical intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities sooner, now that the airborne
test bed developed by Lockheed Martin has received its Experimental
Airworthiness Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Lockheed announced the certification Wednesday. This Airborne
Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML) will be used to tailor advanced
sensor combinations to resolve specific military, strategic
intelligence and homeland security mission needs.
“We’ve designed the AML so that we can easily test a
myriad of sensors to advance the science and art of correlating
diverse types of intelligence – with the goal of rapidly
providing high-quality data,” said Jim Quinn, Lockheed Martin
Information Systems & Global Services-Defense’s vice
president of C4ISR Systems.
A reconfigured Gulfstream III business jet, this multi-INT
test-bed will be used for the development of new sensors and
processing capabilities for both Lockheed Martin and its customers
to expedite the flow of C4ISR capability to warfighters in
theater.
A wide array of features on board the aircraft will facilitate
this experimentation, including a computing capability that
supports most commercial operating systems, a radome on the belly
of the aircraft with ample volume for a range of sensors, and four
workstations. In addition, the AML can process data both onboard
and on the ground to accommodate a variety of experiments. While
the AML is equipped with a robust suite of sensors as well as
wideband and narrowband data links, the intent is to rotate sensors
as necessary to answer specific requirements. To achieve that goal,
the AML incorporates an easily reconfigurable architecture designed
to allow different sensors and equipment to be rapidly integrated
into the aircraft’s mission systems.
Lockheed AML
This architecture also allows for future testing of innovative
techniques for multi-INT mission planning, intelligence gathering,
processing, exploitation and dissemination for a wide variety of
missions across the spectrum of operations. Near-term
experimentation includes participation in the U.S. Army's upcoming
C4ISR On-the-Move exercise, slated for the end of August at Fort
Dix, N.J.
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