Distributed Mission and Data Management System for Airborne Maritime Surveillance

Mission and Data Management System (MDMS) is the brain of any airborne surveillance system which includes mission planning and loading, provision of loading mission parameter data, command & control of different sensors and sub sensors, state management, periodic health monitoring, supply of discrete timing data, streaming of navigation data, integration of surveillance data from sensors like Radar, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) and Automatic Identification System (AIS), providing decision aids, mission data, video, audio recording and retrieval. This paper provides a framework for integrating multitude of sensors for maritime surveillance using Mission Management System (MMS) and Multifunctional Tactical Console (MTC), which are constituent components of MDMS, in an integration test bed. The tight integration of various sensors to MMS will enhance the capability of the sensors as an integrated suite and the output from the various sensors are fused for enhancing the situational awareness. Such an architecture will enable mission ready integrated command and control of various sensors with high availability.