Tactical Electronic Surveillance System - Adv Dev
Abstract
The Army Special Program Office (ASPO) executes the Congressionally-directed Tactical Exploitation of National Exploitation of National CAPabilities (TENCAP) program under the direction of the TENCAP General Officers Steering Group (TGOSG). The TGOSG validated the three core tenets of TENCAP: (1) to understand and influence National technologies and architectures; (2) to perform cross-agency engineering to leverage National capabilities for Army purposes; and (3) to provide core engineering expertise across National and theater Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) layers to enable integration of space with the Army aerial, terrestrial, and foundation layers. ASPO rapidly develops Quick Reaction Capabilities (QRCs) (e.g. Air Vigilance) in response to Joint and Army-approved Operational Needs Statements (JUONS/ONS). TENCAP relies upon Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with core competencies in National and theater level systems and capabilities, who are embedded or interface directly with Science and Technology (S&T) divisions at the NRO, NGA, and NSA, as well as other DOD and non-DOD S&T and academic institutions, and serves as the Army's primary technical interface to these organizations. The TGOSG specifically directs TENCAP to support in three areas: (1) Integrated Intelligence Architecture (I2A), (2) space and cross-layer integration, and (3) assess current warfighter operational gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions. TENCAP Subject Matter Experts and Technical Engineers protect Army equities in the Intelligence Community (IC) and ensure that critical Army requirements are addressed in the development of: (1) new sensor capabilities; (2) data processing, exploitation, and dissemination architectures; and (3) Joint Concepts of Operations (CONOPS). TENCAP also serves as the Army's centralized lead to evaluate, enhance, prototype, and transition new technologies/capabilities, developed in the Science & Technology (S&T) community, to Army tactical systems to include Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), Prophet, and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T). TENCAP facilitates integration of these systems into a coherent enterprise solution that serves as a force multiplier for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Battle Command, and Force Protection capabilities. TENCAP emerging technologies (1) ensure continued access to current National and Theater sensors and supporting ground architectures; and (2) exploit new opportunities that focus on improving the tasking, analysis, processing, exploitation and dissemination of the data collected. This includes efforts to: (1) shorten targeting timelines down to Platoon level; (2) enhance target identification; (3) provide better target location (accuracy); (4) provide continued coverage of a target; (5) develop in-theater analytic tools to exploit data in near-real-time to support contingency operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0603766A_4_2040_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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