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GRASP Seminar Series: Spring 2006
April 21, 12:00 p.m., Wu & Chen Auditorium
Jim Marsh
Lockheed Martin
"Applications and trends in autonomous vehicle technology"
Abstract: The value and sophistication of unmanned systems have dramatically increased over the past 40 years as more challenging battlefields have prompted stunning advances in all types of these platforms. From those in space, in air, and on ground to those at sea and beneath it, the value of unmanned systems as integral, tactical, and critical assets is now unquestioned. As military missions become increasingly complex, unmanned systems are emerging more autonomous, adding human decision-making and teaming behaviors to their traditional roles of payload delivery and surveillance. Not only does autonomy reduce human workload, but it also enables missions in which human supervision is limited or absent. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories in Cherry Hill, NJ, leads industry in developing cutting-edge technologies that enable increased autonomy and intelligence of unmanned platforms. I will talk about autonomous systems technology being developed across Lockheed Martin and then describe work we are doing at ATL in more detail.
Biography: James Marsh is Director of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories in Cherry Hill, NJ, and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He received an MSEE from Stanford University in 1980. Throughout his career in applied research, his primary focus has been on projects sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—the Defense Department’s high-technology think tank. Jim joined Systems Control, Inc. in 1975, eventually leading 55 researchers building large-scale planning systems. In 1985 he moved to Advanced Decision Systems, leading 50 researchers building prototypes of artificial intelligence-based planning systems. His work included the Autonomous Land Vehicle, Army Land Battle Management System, and the Strategic Adaptive Planning Experiment. In 1997 Jim joined Alphatech as vice president of its Arlington Division. While there, he continued his work in planning technology. Four years later, Lockheed Martin recruited Jim as Director of Business Development at the Advanced Technology Laboratories. He became ATL’s director in 2003.
The Advanced Technology Laboratories is Lockheed Martin’s
advanced-computing, applied research and development facility. It transitions
innovation and domain expertise into operational applications for Lockheed
Martin and the defense and government sectors. Building on 75 years of
technology leadership, its 180 researchers evolve technologies in areas
such as autonomy, network-centric operations, cognitive computing, information
exploitation, advanced signal processing and embedded processing. Leveraging
a robust internal research-and-development program, advanced academic
research, and government contracts, the Advanced Technology Laboratories
aggressively pursues its customers' most critical objectives and meets
their expectations with inventive, progressive, timely and cost-effective
computing solutions and services.
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