Lockheed Martin to develop interface to help US Navy manage unmanned vehicles
The Office of Naval Research awarded Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) a $2.4-million, 18-month contract to develop and validate a framework to help small teams of naval operators manage groups of unmanned vehicles through dynamic, complex missions.
Called SUMMIT (Supervision of Unmanned vehicles Mission Management by Interactive Teams), the program will develop a framework for building collaborative displays that allow each operator sitting at a console to access services across all of the ground-control stations. The system’s collaboration layer will also allow operators to fluidly share information and tasks while preserving accountability as those tasks pass from one operator to another.
ATL will use its Interaction Design and Engineering for Advanced Systems process to develop SUMMIT. The process supports direct interaction among operational subject matter experts and technologists to produce technical advances tailored to the warfighter. The result will be a fluid
and dynamic display environment where operators can adjust their workflows when their tasks increase or decrease. This will help maintain a manageable workload among operators across a broad range of scenarios.
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