CHERRY HILL, N.J., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's (NYSE:
LMT) Human Alerting and Interruption Logistics-Surface Ship (HAIL-SS)
system has successfully transitioned from laboratory to platform as an
integrated component on the newly commissioned USS Sterett DDG 104.
HAIL-SS increases a U.S. Navy warfighter's ability to handle high rates
of alerts and interruptions without distraction, and it mediates between
human users and various mechanisms that generate alerts in complex systems.
It reduces rates of alerts through intelligent redirection and filtering,
creates meaningful announcements of alerts, and leverages a human's
cognitive talent to manage quick shifts in attention. HAIL-SS also provides
context recovery to improve human performance when resuming tasks following
interruption.
For the Aegis system, HAIL-SS enables workstation operators to quickly
recognize and focus on critical alerts while simultaneously maintaining
adequate situational awareness of high rates of other, less-important
alerts. Operators can keep contact with critical information during
high-volume, alert-based interruptions, such as those that occur during
stressful combat conditions in an Aegis Combat Information Center.
HAIL-SS results from theory-based research conducted on human subjects
between 1995-2000 at the U.S. Navy Center for Applied Research in
Artificial Intelligence, Naval Research Laboratory. Lockheed Martin
Advanced Technology Laboratories led a diverse government-industry team
from 2002-2004 to further develop and mature HAIL-SS under the Knowledge
Superiority and Assurance, Future Naval Capability program sponsored by the
Office of Naval Research.
As builder of the Aegis weapon system, Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems
and Sensors (MS2) started production of HAIL-SS in 2004 and led its
transition into the Fleet under the direction of the Aegis Program office.
As a reusable, open-architecture software component, HAIL-SS has many
potential applications, including non-military. Lockheed Martin MS2 will
look to transfer it into programs like the Ship Self-Defense System for
Amphibious Assault Ships, Littoral Combat Ships, and aircraft carriers.
Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, Lockheed Martin is a global security
company that 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. The
corporation reported 2007 sales of $41.9 billion.
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