Mission System: facing current and future needs in the Land Platforms domain.
Why Indra’s Mission System
Military operations are turning into scenarios with wider range of threats against which complex systems and disruptive technologies are being developed and used. Together with this battlefield framework, the digitalization process is turning missions into extreme cognitive load for the users that must handle so many sources and data volumes for the detection-recognition-identification (DRI) loop and the decision-making process.
This is especially noticeable in the land domain where military platforms (IFVs, MBTs, APCs, LAVs…) are becoming extremely sophisticated combat systems.
In this context, the traditional bolt-on approach with closed systems and technology added in layers is no longer efficient and does not answer the mission needs in future scenarios.
So the demand goes towards a cross and user-transparent system for improving ergonomics and processes automation.
This may not be a disruptive approach in the airspace field where vehicles have already applied this concept for decades, but sure it is in the Land Platforms.
What is Indra’s Mission System
Our Mission System is a data fusion and management technology for any military vehicle, from ATVs to MBTs, that automates crew activities from an operational approach turning independent systems and subsystems into a SoS. As a summary, it is a software and hardware set based on redundant compact mission processors with embedded SW, which transforms data into valuable information according the mission profile and needs.
A real-time DDS middleware over a video/comms/data network is applied to interconnect the subsystems, inter-relating data coming from the vehicle’ sensors and applying mission intelligence.
The system can be adapted to any land platform and mission requirements since is based in a scalable and modular compact architecture easily expandable and upgradeable throughout vehicle life cycle. Furthermore, the Mission System processors are based in a core architecture with easily growth capabilities to support a variety of applications such as AI, embedded simulation or health usage monitoring (HUMS).
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Which is the impact of Indra’s Mission System
The benefits of our integrated combat system stem from three pillars:
Conclusions
The hybrid and digital warfare context and the increasingly complex systems to respond these new challenges, are leading the user to handle and control a huge volume of information. In the Land Platforms arena, this complexity is rising to substantial levels that dramatically increase the cognitive load and compromises the mission success.
This issue confirms the need for automation and subsystems integration for turning the land vehicle into a SoS, equivalent to what happened in the air domain.
Our Mission System is the next step towards the platform digitization, sensor inter-relation and data management, from an operational dimension.
Against the traditional bolt-on approach, our technology results in higher efficiency and better performances.