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Colorado Springs - Lockheed Martin delivered the first
major component of the Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC2) system
to the US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) and the North American Aerospace
Defense Command (NORAD). The system, called Air Mission Release 1 (AMR), creates
a single picture of the airspace over the US and Canada. It combines data
from various regional air operation centers (RAOC) and air defense sector
sensors that monitor aircraft in and en route to North America, to generate
a complete, integrated aerospace operational picture. This initial component
lays the foundation of the Combatant Commanders Integrated Command and Control
System (CCIC2S), the common, global space and strategic C2 architecture that
company officials say will ultimately allow commanders to simultaneously view
developments in missile warning and defense, space control and air surveillance.
"The delivery of AMR is an enormous step forward in
capability for Cheyenne Mountain," John James, Lockheed Martin's vice
president of Joint C2 and Communications Systems, said in a statement. "We've
replaced 40-year-old legacy hardware with a network-centric, modern system
architecture that will consolidate air, missile and space data into a single
common operational picture." AMR has "been operationally accepted
and the final part to all of this will occur here in the next four weeks,"
Lt. Gen. E.A. (Rick) Findley, deputy commander of NORAD, said at a conference
here January 29. Within a month, he said, "We'll have a new display,
a new way of watching what's going on in our airspace and have it displayed
to enhance situation awareness."
This is a key milestone for the ISC2 program and one in
which ZelTech played a major part. ZelTech, a major subcontractor on the Lockheed
team, leads the Air Migration IPT and provides system engineering, test, database
and systems administration support. AMR is the first part of the ISC2 system,
under which the Lockheed Martin team is integrating some 40 legacy and disparate
command and control systems at STRATCOM and NORAD in a $1.5 billion, 15-year
program. Under this program, systems conform to a cohesive architecture, an
open, standards-based framework that allows for real-time data sharing across
joint systems, sensors and services.
The ISC2 team's next big milestone will be CCIC2S Spiral
2, which will add missile warning capabilities to the AMR 1 release, offering
NORAD a real- time picture of ballistic missile threats and enabling integration
of multiple existing and future missile defense systems. ZelTech will provide
several key members of the core test team for this next release, including
the Missile Warning test manager, the PDS-M test manager, and half of the
CS2 Missile Warning Test team.
For more information about Zel Technologies, please contact
us as follows:
Zel Technologies LLC (ZelTech)
Attention: Corporate Affairs
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Hampton, VA 23669
Telephone: (757) 722-5565
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