Airborne Reconnaissance Systems

Abstract

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Direct War/Enduring Operations dollars in the amount of $5.278 million for Project EH3 will continue to support the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) is the Army's newest generation C-12 based, direct support, manned airborne intelligence collection, processing, and targeting support system. It provides a persistent capability to detect, locate, classify/identify, and track surface targets with a high degree of timeliness and accuracy. EMARSS is assigned to the United States (U.S.) Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Aerial Exploitation Battalions, providing Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance support to combatant commanders. EMARSS is also assigned to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in support of training at the US Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE). The Army Acquisition Objective for EMARSS is 36 systems, with an Army Procurement Objective of 24, to include the following variants: eight (8) EMARSS-G (Geo-INT); four (4) EMARSS-V (Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar, VaDER); eight (8) EMARSS-M (Multi-INT); and four (4) EMARSS-S (SIGINT). Budget Item Justification is addressed in each Project. The FY 2022 Direct War/Enduring Operations dollars in the amount of $4.140 million for Project EH5 will continue to support the Airborne Reconnaissance Low - Enhanced (ARL-E) is a worldwide self-deployable airborne Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) system designed for timely, accurate, assured support to tactical forces over the full spectrum of operations. This system is a De Havilland DHC-8 aircraft replacing the DHC-7 in accordance with the Aerial ISR (AISR) 2020 Strategy. ARL-E will enhance the ARL-M sensor capability sets through the procurement of new and refurbished sensors to meet the ARL-E Capabilities Production Document (CPD) requirements. It provides a persistent capability to include: Broad-Area Surveillance and/or Focused Stare on Target Areas of Interest (Point or Objective Targets), Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR)/Full-Motion Video (FMV) , Multi-Mode Radar, Robust Communications Intelligence (COMINT), on-Board Collection, Analysis, Sensor Cross Cue and dissemination through Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Enabled workstations. ARL-E will be assigned to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command's Aerial ISR Brigade providing AISR support to combatant commanders. For the overall system, the Army Acquisition Objective and the Army Procurement Objective, is nine (9). The Mission Equipment Package (MEP) objective is eight (8). Budget Item Justification is addressed in each Project. The RC-12X Guardrail Common Sensor (GRCS) is a fixed-wing, airborne COMINT and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) collection and precision targeting location system. GRCS provides a persistent capability to detect, locate and classify/identify high value targets with a relevant degree of timeliness and accuracy. GRCS is assigned to two (2) U.S. Army INSCOM Aerial Exploitation Battalions providing Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (AISR) support to combatant commanders. The Army's Acquisition Objective/Army's Procurement Objective is 19 RC-12X; seven (7) fielded to 3rd Ml; and seven (7) fielded to the 204th Ml, and five (5) trainers within TRADOC and INSCOM. Budget Item Justification is addressed in each Project. GRCS is currently the most capable Army AISR system that currently provides SIGINT capabilities to support long range targeting of peer threats in an A2AD environment. Research Development Technology & Evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement funding currently planned will address obsolescence issues for critical SIGINT and ELINT capabilities on the GRCS platform. These investments ensure GRCS AISR support in the A2AD environment is not impacted, which would prevent critical intelligence collection at large standoff which is needed to address long range targeting of peer threats and maintain system relevancy.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0305206A_7_2040_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2022 Base Funds decrease on EH2 funding is for EMARSS Advanced Development FY 2022 increase in funding supports the development of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) / Moving Target Indicator (MTI) modification (EH3) and development of Long Range Radar software enhancements (EH5).
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Army Procurement
• Army Training
• Communications Intelligence
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Intelligence
• Full Motion Video
• Intelligence Collection
• Medium Altitude
• Moving Target Indicator Radar
• Multi-Domain Operations
• Open System Architecture
• Signals Intelligence
• Surveillance
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems