Systematic SitaWare Insight for Decision Support
The Swiss military intelligence community has recently acquired the SitaWare C4I solution from Systematic, and will also use SitaWare Insight as a data fusion and decision support tool.
Switzerland will operate SitaWare Headquarters, SitaWare Insight, IRIS Forms, IRIS Military Messaging software and selected third-party components in one coherent system. The COTS acquisition means operators have immediate access to the SitaWare product suite capabilities, as well as a Coalitions Shared Database, exchanging data seamlessly across platforms, domains and forces, including at the joint level.
The fully integrated, end-to-end solution provides a range of C2, AI, information handling and analysis tools, delivering a common operational picture for operators, explains Michael Jungen, Business Development Manager for Central Europe. “In the past, these requirements were delivered by different products that were usually not connected […] Now they will all be integrated into one solution.”
The Insight product builds upon SitaWare Headquarters, enhancing operators’ intelligence requirements and collection management capabilities, offering the ability to store and analyse a big data repository, processing and disseminating the data armed forces need. It exploits the ‘data lakes’ they control, comprising sensor information, images, videos, documents and more, making it easy to retrieve information from multiple sources. The tool integrates all relevant military and non-military data sources, offering advanced decision support through data collection, storage, analysis and dissemination. AI-powered functions allow users to pinpoint data on everything from enemy positions, images or documents to equipment.
SitaWare Insight is designed with flexibility at its core. When combined with the other elements of the SitaWare suite, Insight will provide the Swiss armed forces with easy access to data that has already been collected and analysed, explains Henrik Sommer, SitaWare Insight Product Manager. Integration is key. “It’s vital to have systems that are completely integrated and exchange data from the tactical to the strategic level.”
Systematic has long recognised the crucial importance of data handling for modern militaries, which drove the development of SitaWare Insight. The new agreement makes Switzerland the latest nation to join the SitaWare family and will “enrich the user community in Central Europe,” says Jungen.
“Switzerland and other nations are very focused on standardised doctrines, principles and procedures,” Sommer notes. “It’s all about exchanging data, enriching each other, and benefitting from working together.”
