by Susan Toth and William Hughes (USA)
NATO forces currently cannot effectively take advantage of available disparate mobile and fixed ISR assets (e.g., sensors, cameras, unattended ground sensors, etc.) from coalition partners during coalition ground operations. Coalition partners must provide all of the ISR assets they need respectively, which creates significantly increased costs in logistics and sustainment and required personnel. NATO SET-218 explored the state of the art for ongoing individual efforts on interoperability. NATO SET-256 seeks to build on the work of SET-218. SET-256 will conduct an interoperability experiment to develop a method to match/integrate disparate sensors with native formats into both a common environment and align with existing NATO STANAGs.
Using critical infrastructure protection as the scene for the experiment, the SET-256 experiment will integrate participating nations' unattended ground sensors into a common frame work using appropriate middleware, such as Open Standards for Unattended Sensors (OSUS), the UK's Sensing for Asset Protection using Integrated Electronic Network Technology (SAPIENT) protocol, and NATO’s OGC Sensor Web Enablement compliant draft STANAG 4789. In preparation for this event, SET-256 has hosted an OSUS workshop and participated in a SAPIENT workshop.
The designed architecture will allow disparate sensors to work collaboratively and ultimately provide information in NATO enterprise using existing MASINT reporting STANAGs. SET-256 will publish the results of their summer 2020 experiment in their final report due spring 2021.
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