Tactical Electronic Surveillance System - Adv Dev

Abstract

The Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) program serves as the Army's centralized lead to perform National Intelligence cross-agency engineering to evaluate, enhance, prototype, and transition Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) technologies/capabilities developed by Science and Technology (S&T) and other activities across the National Intelligence Community (IC) into Army systems and architectures. TENCAP: (1) ensures continued access to current National and Theater sensors and supporting tactical architectures; and (2) exploits new developments that focus on improving the Analysis and Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination and Feedback (TCPEDF) of intelligence data. This includes efforts to: (1) shorten targeting timelines down to the Platoon level; (2) enhance target identification; (3) provide better target location (accuracy); (4) provide continued coverage of a target; and (5) develop in-theater analytic tools to enable data exploitation in near real-time support to contingency operations. Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) Space prototype system will provide timely assured intelligence for long range precision fires and maneuver in connected and A2AD environments; Assured access to Space ISR: National, Army and Commercial; Software Analytics capability to enable the intelligence cycle with increased speed, precision and accuracy Automated/Assisted Sensor-to-Shooter workflows: speed, scalability, accuracy to support LRPF in an A2AD environment; Modern and consolidated ground station for space and select aerial sensors. TITAN is pending the creation of its own project line 643766.BX9 in FY 2022, once the strategy and validation of the requirement can be finalized within HQDA. The Multi Domain Sensor System (MDSS) will provide multiple sensing capabilities by developing and prototyping survivable sensor capabilities on higher altitude platforms that can perform effective stand-off operations. MDSS will exploit and disrupt enemy Radio Frequency (RF) capabilities and systems. They include Electronic Intelligence (ELINT), Communications Intelligence (COMINT), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Moving Target Indicator (MTI), Cyber/EW, Air-Launched Effects (ALE) and Aircraft Survivability sensors. These will allow stand-off operations to detect, locate, identify and track critical targets for the ground commander. Developing and demonstrating this sensing capabilities on higher altitude platforms is the first step toward gaining advantage against threats posed by adversarial anti-access and area-denial efforts in the competition phase of operations. The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) strategy will provide prototyping, development and experimentation of the Tactical Space Layer (TSL) sensors (electro optical, synthetic aperture radar, and radio frequency) which are designed to provide wide-area, responsive deep area sensing required for beyond line of sight (BLOS) targeting and force maneuver, significantly reducing Sensor to Shooter (S2S) timelines. Follow-on persistent prototype tactical sensor capabilities will be integrated with the Army Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground station which will provide direct tasking and assured access directly supporting live-fire S2S demonstrations and assessments. The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) realignment from Program Element (PE) 1206308A Project FE5 to PE 0603766A Project 907 occurs in FY 2022.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0603766A_4_2040_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
The addition of $52M in FY21 was due to the Multi-Domain Sensing System (MDSS) new start The addition of $86.6M in FY21 was due to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) realignment from Program Element (PE) 1206308A Project FE5 to PE 0603766A Project 907
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Launched
  • Area Denial
  • Communications Intelligence
  • Earth Orbits
  • Electronic Intelligence
  • Electronic Warfare
  • General Officers
  • Ground Stations
  • Intelligence Community
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Line Of Sight
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Radio Frequency
  • Surveillance
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Quantum
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Space Objects

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