Enabling Land, Sea, Air and Space Defenders to Move Faster and Act Smarter

Leidos developed OC2ELOT, a software that turns overwhelming streams of sensor data into clear, real-time insights

Three Points to Remember 

1. Orchestration and Command & Control Environment for Leveraging Optimized Tasking (OC2ELOT — pronounced like the wildcat) helps operators by automatically re-tasking sensors when time matters most.
2. OC2ELOT is a secure program designed to work across many environments and connect new tools, sensors and data streams without locking users into one vendor. 

3. Proven in demonstrations for space and land domains, OC2ELOT has the potential to work in many domains with high speed and clarity.  

Warning indicators flash in front of those responsible for monitoring long-range missiles. Ground-based radars, surveillance systems and intelligence feeds begin reporting simultaneously. As adversaries attempt to obscure or overwhelm the sensor networks, each signal could be a danger or decoy meant to draw responses away from the real threat moving in unseen. Sorting through this flood of information is not just difficult: delays create openings for adversaries to disrupt, deceive or disable vital U.S. assets.  

Turning information into action  

What’s needed is an AI-enabled system designed not just to collect data but also to help operators organize disparate sensor feeds, manage competing priorities and make time-critical decisions. They need a singular view of and control over data and information coming from a range of different systems, supported by AI insights.  

Leidos developed the Orchestration and Command & Control Environment for Leveraging Optimized Tasking, or OC2ELOT — pronounced like the wildcat — to address those challenges. OC2ELOT is a software platform that pulls in massive amounts of information from many sources and turns it into a single operational picture in real time. It analyzes tracking feeds, and from its advanced analytics process, the software platform builds live models that identify, track and assess targets by combining measurements, reports and imagery.  

Leidos designed the software platform on an open-architecture, microservice-based framework, enabling the integration of legacy and partner systems as well as additional capabilities through small, independent and loosely coupled apps. Reflecting a strategy to develop user-centric technology that opens the door for innovation and prioritizes speed-to-capability, the framework enables users and mission teams to integrate or update tools and sensors quickly as their needs evolve, without needing to rebuild the system. 

The benefits of the open-architecture framework were demonstrated in the land domain, where OC2ELOT integrated an older system not originally designed to work with modern tools. Leidos enabled automated data sharing that resulted in significant improvements in operator efficiency during field testing. Additionally in space-domain testing, OC2ELOT facilitated integration of more than 20 third-party systems. 

OC2ELOT employs a Leidos-engineered agentic AI architecture that brings together AI/ML, physics, and predetermined rules in its decision-making. In addition to quickly scanning radar, optical and radio data, the AI can identify patterns, predict events and recommend appropriate sensor actions. 

"OC2ELOT’s AI-driven insights and dynamic tasking capabilities allow us to orchestrate hundreds of sensors globally and deliver mission-critical observations efficiently,” Rhet Turnbull, senior solutions architect, explained. “The open architecture empowers mission teams to adapt and innovate without vendor lock-in to help ensure leading technologies are at the forefront of sensor orchestration.” 

With this capability, warfighters can better anticipate opponents’ movements, maintain visibility and focus on the most important targets, which may lead to faster, more decisive responses as well as fewer opportunities for opponents to take advantage of blind spots. 

Bridging the data-to-decision gaps  

As demonstrated during land-domain testing, OC2ELOT orchestrated a clear operational picture among sensors by integrating airborne, body-worn and ground-based sensors to track and analyze threats. 

In the congested space environment, this orchestration capability is even more consequential. There are thousands of resident space objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) such as satellites. In space-domain testing, the system coordinated sensors to track them all at once. It analyzed and re-tasked sensors in under two seconds to keep a continuous eye on a newly launched target without human intervention. 

This speed enables warfighters tracking missiles to stay aware of mobile or urgent threats even as conditions shift faster than they can manually manage. 

OC2ELOT can be deployed in the cloud, secure facilities, field environments and edge devices, enabling it to work anywhere mission teams need. Its open, modular architecture and ability to rapidly integrate new capabilities allow it to be quickly adapted for space-domain awareness. However, OC2ELOT’s flexibility can provide support to multiple mission types that require cutting through the noise to gain clear situational awareness. 

Leidos is looking at the platform’s potential uses in other domains, including maritime and land-based defense. 

Through its integration capabilities, flexible architecture and efficiency, OC2ELOT is designed to be a dependable tool, consistently detecting signals. Warfighters are in charge, while OC2ELOT helps manage the speed and scale no human could handle alone.  

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