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Lockheed Martin Selects RemoteReality to Provide Intelligent-Omni-Video Systems for Naval Defense Against Fast Inshore Attack Craft
WESTBOROUGH, MASS., July 20, 2007 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has selected RemoteReality Corporation’s intelligent-omni-video systems for persistent situational awareness to integrate into the company’s Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) Defense System. Lockheed Martin’s proof-of-concept FIAC Defense System provides an innovative way to cost-effectively extend the defensive perimeter of most naval vessels out to five miles to counter the globally emerging threat of small attack boat swarms.
“RemoteReality is one of several private companies collaborating with Lockheed Martin to develop the FIAC Defense System and provide the U.S. Navy and allied nations with enhanced protection against this growing threat,” says Dr. James Ionson, RemoteReality’s CEO. “Our intelligent-omni-video systems enable the FIAC Defense System to fully monitor a ship’s perimeter around the clock.”
With support from the U.S. Navy, a Lockheed Martin-led industry team has developed the FIAC Defense System to augment the Navy’s current approach by integrating new sensors, weapons and decision support systems with innovative command-and-control elements. These combined systems extend the range needed to identify the intent of an approaching craft.
“This enables host ships to detect, identify, verify hostility and, if necessary, target small boat threats,” says George Root, Advanced Systems Director at Lockheed Martin’s Littoral Ships & Systems business unit in Baltimore, which leads the team. “Once a threat has been verified as hostile, the FIAC Defense System can engage the attacking craft with a layered array of appropriate lethal and non-lethal responses as they penetrate the system’s five-mile defensive perimeter.”
During the upcoming 2007 development phase, the FIAC Defense System will prove its capability with system level testing, including at-sea operations on a U.S. Navy test range with live laser designation and both air-to-surface and surface-to-surface firings of several missile types against maneuvering target boats in multiple FIAC threat scenarios.
“RemoteReality’s omni-directional camera systems will improve FIAC’s situational awareness by delivering a full 360-degree view,” Root says. “We’re excited about this next phase of testing and look forward to showing the U.S. Navy what FIAC can do.”
About Lockheed Martin Corp. (www.lockheedmartin.com)
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
About RemoteReality Corp. (www.remotereality.com )
RemoteReality is the designer and manufacturer of intelligent-omni-video systems that include the OmniAlert360 perimeter monitoring system, for perimeter surveillance; the OmniAlert360 manned navigation and surveillance systems, for manned vehicle situational awareness; the OmniAlert360 unmanned navigation and surveillance systems, for unmanned or remote vehicle situational awareness; and the ThermalVision360 system, for night-vision applications. By integrating high-resolution 360-degree mirrors, optics, sensors and intelligent processing into single-lens, solid-state, high-frame-rate video appliances, RemoteReality's systems promise 360-degree real-time, continuous video with the ability to simultaneously detect and track multiple objects, in visible and infrared thermal spectra. These systems, integrating unique hardware and proprietary software, are fully compatible with current object-recognition applications, have no moving parts and operate at maximum efficiency in just about any wireless communication network environment. While the company is working with such premier contractors as Lockheed Martin in the defense sector, on the commercial side the company is working with such top security-systems integrators as North American Video, with which the company is co-developing products for the gaming industry in North America
RemoteReality is a trademark of RemoteReality Corporation. The names of actual companies and/or products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
RemoteReality OmniAlert360™ cameras are mounted on both sides of Lockheed Martin's Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) test ship’s main mast to provide persistent situational awareness of the perimeter surrounding the ship. Both cameras deliver full 360-degree views with the images displayed on a pair of console screens.
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