ISR Broker

In supporting the changing task profiles within a mission, future military fighter, strike and surveillance aircraft will need to continuously obtain updated external sensor data from the Global Information Grid (GIG) network.

To meet this requirement AOS is undertaking the development of a Reactive ISR Information Broker (ISR Broker) for the on-board interfacing to aircraft mission systems. AOS is utilising its Intelligent Agent autonomous software technology to form the core of the system.

ISR Broker can also be utilised for other NCW platforms such as UAVs, Command & Control Centres, Naval Platforms and Land Vehicles.

The ISR Broker will geographically look for relevant sensor information, need to know what sensors are on the network, know specific sensor attributes such as coverage areas, mobility, data rates and most importantly the confidence of the data available.

Once such ISR requests to the GIG have been broadcast by the ISR Broker, the relevant external sensor data will be uploaded to the aircraft and the ISR Broker will be able to filter the inputs by ID, type, location, age and confidence.

Finally the ISR Broker will then be able to route the data to the appropriate onboard system such as a Mission Management System, data fusion engine, navigation or weapon system for processing.

AOS Group Customer Base:

Air Force Research Labs & DMSO, USA
Ministry of Defence, UK
Australian Defence Dept.
Canadian Dept. of National Defence (DRDC)
QinetiQ, UK
Thales, UK
Defence Science & Tech. Organisation (DSTO), Australia
Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Rolls Royce U.K.
BAE Systems U.K.
Statoil Norway