The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded BAE systems a $48 million contract to further develop an analytics system used by military intelligence analysts.
The contract announced on Aug. 6 will “mature components” and add new features to Insight, an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system currently used by AFRL. Insight uses advanced data processing, analytics, and automation to improve military intelligence and “close capability gaps.”
“This latest Insight award demonstrates the confidence the government has in BAE Systems’ ability to deliver complex solutions to tough operational and intelligence challenges,” said Meg Redlin, the product line director for Mission Systems at BAE Systems.
“This also highlights our collaboration with our FAST Labs research and development organization, and our commitment to developing and eventually transitioning technology,” she continued.
Developed by the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA), the Insight program aims to enhance predictive analytic capabilities and performance through receiving, indexing, and storing mass amounts of data and then conducting analysis and correlations with the information. The data processed by Insight assists by computing data in real-time, helping complex operations.
A key focus of the contract is developing and integrating with Resolute Sentry, a real-time multi-domain battlespace awareness in highly contested environments, and other airborne applications.
“This effort will continue the work done on previous contracts to provide techniques for generating threat course of action scores from multiple sensors, domains, and information types, to include modeling, simulation, algorithm development, assessment, and demonstrations,” said BAE.
The work will take place in San Diego with collaboration from engineering teams across the United States.
