New Cross-Domain Networking Capability Enhances Military Situational Awareness

Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, successfully demonstrated a new cross-domain networking capability to improve situational awareness for forces in the initial stages of a conflict. 

Collins enabled the relay of unclassified data from non-traditional sensors into a fires network in support of Marine Corps Command and Control objectives during exercise Keen Sword hosted by III Marine Expeditionary Force.

Non-traditional sensors such as commercial nodes run on different networks to government systems, requiring data movement across machines to provide users with an integrated view of key data. 

Collins automated the routing of data across different security classification levels, and used satellite networks to provide a secure transport layer between the non-traditional sensors in a configuration that took less than an hour to set up and run.

Elaine Bitonti, vice president and general manager for the Connected Battlespace & Emerging Capabilities portfolio at Collins, commented, “We must provide decision makers with the best information from any data source and rapidly reconfigure systems to support changing mission needs. During the exercise, Collins enabled expeditionary machine to machine transfers of data to close decision chains quickly.”