Unique operational planning for the naval commander

SitaWare Maritime ensures seamless interoperability with partners and enables cohesive C2 across task forces and domains. Benefitting from the latest technology developments, the software strengthens and optimises planning capabilities for naval commanders.

As the sources of information available are more varied and widespread than ever before, the orchestration of plans across units and headquarters has become complex. To juggle input from multiple people, places, and platforms at the same time, collaborative planning is an essential part of a modern maritime C2 system like SitaWare Maritime.

With its comprehensive collaborative planning environment, SitaWare Maritime assists commanders and their staff in developing the best course of action to achieve their missions. More specifically, SitaWare Maritime makes it possible to develop and share plans, including related documents and messages, with all staff members – and to continuously adapt as the mission unfolds.

Whenever an update or a new order is available, the operators receive a notification of the changes, for example as a chat message. They can then import the new information in a few clicks – without the need to load an entirely new plan.

To ensure effective planning, tasking, and communication across maritime units, SitaWare Maritime features an extensive planning toolset. Among other things, it includes:

A significant challenge for many commanders with planning responsibility is the information they receive via Message Text Format (MTF). At first, they need to read these messages. Then, they have to extract the most important points. And finally, they have to manually enter these into a Combat Management System (CMS). It goes without saying that this is a labour-intensive and time-consuming process, with too many opportunities for human errors.

To add an extra challenging layer to the workflow, commanders face many of the same issues when creating plans and orders themselves.

To overcome the cumbersome task of message management, SitaWare Maritime introduces automated processes and a simplified user interface. Together, these bring significant benefits to commanders when writing new orders and introducing changes as missions unfold.

Importantly, SitaWare Maritime enables commanders to compose messages in a structured template by using the IRIS Forms solution as an integrated message editor. Firstly, this eliminates the errors that would otherwise be introduced when free writing many lines of text. And secondly, it also reduces labour and time demands – while strengthening information assurance simultaneously.

The comprehensive planning functionality of SitaWare Maritime can be considered as a web of detailed, well-thought-out, and interconnected technical features. Each and every one brings advantages – and together, their strengths only grow. Two of the features deserve a little extra attention: the cluster organisation and the small-size of planning layers.

• The collaborative planning capability, which enables multiple users to work in a single planning environment at the same time, is achieved by organising individual servers in a cluster. This ensures that data is continuously shared and synchronised between the users.
• The planning layers that commanders use are built in very small sizes. Actually, down to kilobytes even. This makes it possible to transfer information over limited bandwidth, as is typically the case of HF communications.