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The Defense Department is working to fuse its intelligence
assets so that warfighters know probable enemy courses of action and vulnerabilities
before ever entering the battlefield. To help accomplish that ambitious goal
during the next few years, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information
Directorate this month selected Zel Technologies LLC to lead the Intelligence
Preparation of the Battlespace for Predictive Battlespace Awareness program.
The program is designed to provide spiral research and
development, life cycle management, testing and fielding, said Charles Flynn
Jr., program manager in the directorate's Information and Intelligence Exploitation
Division. The contract also calls for familiarizing users with a software
application known as Automated Assistance with Intelligence Preparation of
the Battlespace.
The AFRL and Zel Technologies jointly developed the software
under a 2001 contract, but the new five-year agreement, awarded June 4 and
worth $24.9 million, will take that work to the next level, Flynn said.
The new software application will integrate with numerous
intelligence systems, including:
- Air Force target development systems.
- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance management
and employment systems.
- Fusion systems.
- Intelligence and command and control databases.
- Effects-based operations systems.
- Nearly 30 Air Force air operations centers will use the
software, and it is also being prepared for use by the intelligence community
in DOD's Intelligence Information System environment.
Fielding of the software will begin in March 2004, and
the best-case scenario would have implementation completed across the Air
Force in 2006 and DOD-wide the following year, according to an AFRL spokesperson.
By Dan Caterinicchia, Federal Computer Week.
For more information about Zel Technologies, please contact
us as follows:
Zel Technologies LLC (ZelTech)
Attention: Corporate Affairs
54 Old Hampton Lane
Hampton, VA 23669
Telephone: (757) 722-5565
Fax: (757) 722-8516
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