SitaWare Maritime: The Subsurface Battlespace Just Got Clearer

The latest Maritime release from SitaWare

Beneath the waves, both enemy and friendly submarines maneuver in silence. In multinational operations, this creates one of naval warfare's most dangerous challenges: how do coalition commanders maintain clarity over their own submarine operations when friend and foe maneuver unseen in the same contested waters? Where misidentification can mean the difference between mission success and catastrophic friendly fire incidents, clarity isn't just an advantage—it's essential.

Systematic today unveiled the answer. SitaWare Maritime, the world's leading naval C4ISR solution, now fully implements Prevention of Mutual Interference (PMI) capability as commercial off-the-shelf software. This advancement provides submarine commanders and planners with a dramatically improved subsurface operational picture among coalition partners, enabling safe and coordinated submarine operations in the environments where clarity matters most.

“The addition of PMI planning capabilities takes SitaWare to new depths,” said Commander Nicholas Kristof, US Navy (Retired), a former submariner who now serves as Director of Defense Sales at Systematic. “This addition will enable the world’s Submarine Operating Authorities to employ SitaWare in their planning processes. Before this update, that just wasn’t the case.”

Coalition Submarine Operations: From Opacity to Clarity

SitaWare Maritime's latest software release offers submarine planners the ability to ensure safe separation between submarines and other maritime and air assets by analyzing operations across four dimensions: time, latitude, longitude and depth. The capability uses dynamic moving havens that chart a submarine's planned route, providing a shared understanding of where submarines are expected to operate at specific times.

"In multinational operations, clarity and predictability are essential," said Lasse Krabbesmark, Product Manager at Systematic. "PMI ensures that coalition partners can operate together safely whilst maintaining the necessary level of information sharing."

Submarine movement and operations plans can be shared using standard NATO message formats, enabling allied forces to understand when areas are active, when sensors can be deployed, and how to distinguish friendly submarines from potential threats. SitaWare's PMI tool controls and deconflicts these plans prior to dissemination.

As a commercial off-the-shelf solution built on NATO interoperability standards, SitaWare Maritime's PMI capability integrates seamlessly with existing naval command and control systems, enabling rapid deployment across coalition task forces without lengthy integration program.

Continuous Innovation for Modern Naval Warfare

SitaWare Maritime is part of the world-leading SitaWare Suite from Systematic, providing naval commanders with effective command and control across domains. With twice-yearly updates, this latest release demonstrates Systematic's commitment to delivering cutting-edge capabilities that address real operational challenges facing modern naval forces.

As submarine operations intensify in the Indo-Pacific, North Atlantic, and Baltic Sea regions, and as mine warfare capabilities proliferate in littoral zones from the Persian Gulf to the Arctic, SitaWare Maritime's enhanced capabilities address the immediate coordination challenges facing NATO and allied naval forces operating in these contested environments.

About SitaWare

Systematic’s C4ISR* solution, SitaWare is created with the aim of increasing the security of deployed soldiers, strengthening alliances, and making it easier to make well-informed decisions in critical situations.

It is a command-and-control system that provides a detailed overview of forces, infrastructure, terrain and buildings in a given area, enabling information sharing, planning, coordination and communication effectively.

SitaWare can be used on land, at sea, in the air, in space and in cyberspace, among all domains and among nations. The system integrates military communications networks, surveillance systems and target designation with analysis and decision support functions and uses artificial intelligence for data processing. It is built with open architecture that makes it easy to integrate with other solutions, as well as users can create their own plug-ins and add-ons that suit their mission and task requirements.

SitaWare is used by approximately 50 countries worldwide – including most major NATO countries and NATO partner countries, e.g., Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the United States.

C4ISR: Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.