
DARPA has selected BAE Systems to develop software to enable semi-autonomous multi-domain mission planning, the company said Monday. Under the deal, valued at $3.1 million, BAE Systems’ Fast Labs research and development team will design the Multi-Domain Adaptive Request Service (MARS) software to assist military operators by automatically identifying ideal operational response options. “Multi-domain mission planning is complex because it involves a tremendous amount of distributed variables such as domains, systems, resources, and manned and unmanned platforms,” Chris Eisenbies, product…