Fast Connectivity for Coalitions and Agents Program (Fast C2AP) is a web-accessible suite of software tools that will allow US Navy watch-standers to compose and launch intelligent software agents to improve situation awareness in maritime domains. The suite is a stand-alone component and uses external inputs from web-based sources and applications as well as from maritime databases. Phase III will fund software upgrades and transition Fast C2AP this year to several US Navy commands.
The NATO Component Commander Maritime Operations Center used Fast C2AP during a recent NATO maritime exercise. For two weeks watchstanders monitored merchant ships, fishing boats, cruise ships and warships transiting the Mediterranean Sea. Results showed that Fast C2AP and associated software improved by two orders of magnitude the number of tracks humans could process and that agents effectively helped them manage overwhelming amounts of actionable data for intelligence centers.
As a result of Fast C2AP’s performance, admiral Henry Ulrich, commander US Naval Forces Europe, recommended its transition to a ‘Program of Record’ to ensure continued engineering and programmatic support.
