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December 2006. CTI, in cooperation with the C2ISR Battlelab at Langley AFB, VA conducted a Warfighter Analysis Workshop (WAW) to evaluate ctMPS.

This evaluation was a major hurdle in certifying ctMPS for potential use by US Warfighters. The WAW evaluated ctMPS (called Collaborative Mission Planning (CoMP) for this exercise) for ease of use and usability in several operational scenarios. Ten frontline Warfighters, including Pilots, Navigators and Intelligence personnel from both the USAF and the US Navy where trained on ctMPS within one hour and began using this groundbreaking software in a laboratory setting immediately thereafter.

The culmination was a scenario designed by the Warfighters themselves, where 11 different types of aircraft were utilized in a Collaborative Mission Plan involving multiple refuelings, multiple rendezvous for mutual support and coordinated Time-Over-Target (TOT’s) on multiple targets.

Special Operations Technology
Online Edition - June 23, 2006

Portable Flight Planning System
Collaboration Technologies Inc. has created a collaboration-enabled portable flight planning system (PFPS) that allows two or more PFPS systems to collaborate on a mission plan over a wide-area or a local area network. This new product is called ctMPS, for Collaboration Technologies Mission Planning System.

The ctMPS software creates a virtual mission planning room (VMPR) over a network where all units who are cooperating in a given mission can create their own routes to an objective and back again while simultaneously viewing the routes being created by the other units—all in real time.

Further, collaboration occurs at the object level. This is entirely unlike the standard concept of collaboration, which usually involves text chat, e-mailing routes or application sharing. Because of this capability to collaborate at the object level, ctMPS allows each VMPR the capability to host many simultaneous users. There can be many virtual mission-planning rooms in existence simultaneously. Unit level mission planners can observe the routes being created by other units on the same chart with the same information available, making the task of collaboration on missions much easier.

Collaboration Technologies has tested ctMPS over standard 56k phone modems with no perceived loss of response. VMPR can input threat symbology simultaneously for all users in all virtual mission-planning rooms to view and react to, all in real time. The intelligence community will be able to use ctMPS to peel back layers of intelligence formalities and procedures to expose the real time intelligence picture to those who need it most—the aircrews. This real time input of intelligence to the VMPRs can be done from anywhere, not just in-theater.