The U.S. Navy's net-centric system for intelligence collection and dissemination is to be enhanced by Lockheed Martin under a five-year contract award.

Lockheed said its work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award could involve integrating and deploying capabilities that monitor the status of all sensors registered in the Distributed Information Operations-System network; then displaying the input from those sensors in support of real-time planning.

The contract was issued by the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific and is worth $35 million.

Lockheed said that under the contract, network integration of sensors will be designed to accomplish cross-cueing, cooperative sensing and automated target recognition or classification when feasible.

"For the Navy, every platform is a sensor, and every sensor must be networked," said Dr. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR for Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Solutions. "We'll leverage our more than 30 years developing and fielding signals intelligence systems to increase the Navy's intelligence sharing capability across the full spectrum of maritime and littoral missions."

C4ISR stands for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

The Navy's Distributed Information Operations-System was co-developed for the service by Lockheed.