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Air operation C2 skyview

The SkyView air command and control solution is designed to meet requirements related to modern ground-based air defense systems at execution level in a network-enabled environment.

• Interoperable, scalable and seamless war fighting capabilities able to cope with fast decision cycles for in-country and expeditionary operations (Time Critical/Sensitive Targeting, Effect-based Operations)
• Open and Service Oriented based Architecture to achieve system flexibility irrespective of operational deployments and to reduce evolution and maintenance costs.

The SkyView command and control system optimizes the use of all available battle space real-time information: data from sensors and tactical data links. SkyView also provides a single integrated air picture for all users in order to achieve information and execution superiority.

Key Features

SkyView provides users will full capabilities for Surveillance and Air Operations management and focuses primarily on real-time information by integrating all relevant command orders (e.g. ATO, ACO, MISREP) in order to maintain consistency and synchrony with planned operations.
In order to provide operators with an accurate and common operating picture, SkyView integrates information from the available sources such as sensor systems (active and passive, civil and military, ground and airborne radars) and tactical data links. Based on the obtained operating picture, SkyView provides all the required capabilities to fulfil air sovereignty and air policing missions such as threat evaluation, weapons trial and assignment aids, air mission control and air traffic control capabilities as well as sophisticated civil-military coordination features.
SkyView also includes Extended Air Defense capabilities to deal with threats such as cruise missiles, unmanned air vehicles and ballistic missiles. SkyView is a fully scalable and customizable solution that can be deployed as a global turnkey solution or partly deployed as an add-on for a legacy system.

SkyView provides the following operational and transverse capabilities:

Missions applications

• Surveillance (multi-sensor tracking, identification, dynamic sensor management, Common Operating Picture production) Air Mission Control (Threat Evaluation & Weapon Assignment, Fighter interception control, Weapons control, Real-time advisories)
• Air Traffic Control (Flight Plan & Data processing, Civil/Military coordination)
• Common Operating Picture dissemination and cross/lateral tell exchanges

Capabilities

• Ground and Radio communications
• Operator profiles management and related security access rules
• Data recording, reduction and replay
• System monitoring and control

Technology & Performance

SkyView is based on an open, component-based and service oriented architecture providing an easy and flexible way to implement network centric systems and reducing maintenance costs.

High performance functions suitable for new requirements

• More than 100 connected sensors (active or passive, civilian or military)
• More than 50 Tactical Data Links (L1, L11A/B, L16, JRE or unclassified/national specific links)
• More than 2000 civilian flight plans (AFTN and or ADEXP protocols)
• More than 10 000 system tracks including EAD tracks

From a technological standpoint, main features of the product are :

• Platform independent (UNIX, Linux, Windows operating system)
• N-tiers architecture
• Fully fault-tolerant and redundant architecture
• Multi-language support