United States, Dec. 10 -- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems' FAST Labs (TM) research, development, and production organization a $16 million Phase 2 contract for the Oversight program. The Oversight program is focused on creating an autonomous system that keeps track, or maintains constant "custody," of a large number of terrestrial assets via new satellite constellations.The award follows the successful completion of the Phase 1 program. During Phase 1, BAE Systems' software was integrated into a modeling and simulation environment to demonstrate a custody mission on representative satellite and sensor models. In Phase 2, BAE Systems will mature its solution algorithms and demonstrate operat...