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Joint Unified Multicapable
Protection
System provides
situational awareness
and delivers command
and control capability
to support military
and civil authorities
By Jim Hayes, SEC
In 2009, the Department of the Army released a posture
statement making a commitment to provide defense support
to civil authorities across the nation when needed.
Originally designed to provide an effective solution to
monitor maritime traffic, the Software Engineering Center’s
Joint Unified Multi-Capable Protection System, or JUMPS,
has proven itself to be versatile in supporting multiple
roles and for a variety of military and civilian capacities,
according to Kenneth Caswell, technical lead for the
program.
“JUMPS provides a deployable strategic and tactical
command and control system to conduct joint, interagency
and coalition coordination in support of harbor defense,
maritime critical infrastructure protection, high value
asset defense, anti-piracy operations and related littoral
activities,” Caswell explained. “Its architecture provides
the flexibility allowing sensors to be moved, reconfigured
and upgraded as dictated by mission requirements without
minimizing overall system performance.”
The JUMPS program consists of a comprehensive set of
capabilities that includes a suite of sensors, software and
workstations providing command, control, communications,
computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
situational awareness for threat detection and emergency
response in the maritime domain.
“Its design leverages existing best of breed governmentoff-the-shelf
and commercial-off-the-shelf sensors and
communications products to provide a cost-effective
solution for applications inside and outside the continental
U.S.,” said Caswell.
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