Aerial Common Sensor

Abstract

The EMARSS is the Army's next generation C-12 based, direct support, manned airborne intelligence collection, processing, and targeting support system. EMARSS provides a persistent capability to detect, locate, classify/identify, and track surface targets with a high degree of timeliness and accuracy. EMARSS aircraft will be assigned to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command's (INSCOM) Aerial Exploitation Battalions (AEB). EMARSS is an improvement over the existing Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System Quick Reaction Capability (MARSS QRC) in that it hosts an on board Distributed Common Ground System - Army (DCGS-A) capability, improved satellite communications, improved aircraft performance, and life cycle logistics sustainment capability. EMARSS will consist of a commercial derivative aircraft equipped with an Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor with Full Motion Video (FMV), a Communications Intelligence (COMINT) collection system, an Aerial Precision Geolocation (APG) system, tactical line-of-site (LOS) and beyond line-of-site (BLOS) communications suite, two DCGS-A enabled operator workstations and a self-protection suite. EMARSS is built to allow future capabilities to be integrated on platform with the addition of a third carry-on workstation. EMARSS will operate in direct support of tactical missions. EMARSS, integrating elements of the DCGS-A, will provide efficient response to Combat Forces with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) tasking. The EMARSS funding line contains funding for the ARL-E program. ARL-E supports the Aerial ISR 2020 Strategy which recommended replacement of the current Airborne Reconnaissance Low Multifunction (ARL-M) and migrates the current ARL sensors plus new niche sensors to meet the ARL-E Capabilities Production Document (CPD) requirements. ARL-E procures the hardware, software, and infrastructure to rapidly install sensors which support a rapid plug and play, quick connect/disconnect, mounting system to allow the installation of various combinations of sensor-types in support of a wide-range of theater operations. The sensor suite will consist of a COMINT subsystem capable of supporting theater net centric geo-location efforts, High Definition Full Motion Video (FMV); Improved Synthetic Aperture Radar / Moving Target Indicator (SAR/MTI) radar capability and updated mission workstations, as well as radio and data/communications architecture. ARL-E will leverage existing sensors as well as integrating and installing niche sensors to augment current capabilities. Niche capabilities include Wide Area Aerial Surveillance (WAAS), LIDAR, and Hyper Spectral Imaging (HSI) sensors.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0605626A_5_2040_PB_2017
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Aircrafts
• Army Intelligence
• Artificial Satellites
• Communications Intelligence
• Contracts
• Engineering
• Full Motion Video
• Intelligence Collection
• Medium Altitude
• Moving Target Indicator Radar
• Moving Targets
• Product Development
• Surveillance
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Space
• Space - Satellites
• Space - Space Objects