Shadow Harvest
Abstract
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validated the capability need for SHADOW HARVEST in FY 2008. The outcome of the SHADOW HARVEST JCTD is to provide Combatant Commands an integrated, joint airborne capability to provide persistent surveillance to consistently, accurately and efficiently find, fix, track and target enemy assets obscured by weather, vegetation, camouflage, concealment and/or deception (CC&D). The program leverages the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) SHADOW HARVEST C-130 based program along with several maturing sensors and relevant networking/data fusion/recognition technologies. SHADOW HARVEST will provide a timely and low cost C-130 based approach to integrate, operationally deploy, and demonstrate new sensor processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) capabilities into the intelligence production cycle and will require fewer personnel, reduce or eliminate dependence on specialized collection platforms, mitigate the problems associated with equipment standardization and minimize the impact on the maintenance infrastructure. The goal of this JCTD is to transition a mature system, architectures, flexible adaptive CONOPS and platform which will allow for flexible airborne remote sensing in a tactical or irregular warfare environment. SHADOW HARVEST will be compatible with intelligence community, DoD and COCOM requirements and will provide a rapid to-the-field development capability for future sensor systems. SHADOW HARVEST is a two-year project sponsored by USSOUTHCOM, and the JCTD is scheduled to be complete by the end of FY 2009. It will transition to selected Program Manager(s) / Program of Record(s) by FY 2012. The lead service is the US Air Force. The DIA is the lead agency responsible for organizing a multi-agency, multi-service team for the JCTD. The primary outputs and efficiencies of the JCTD Joint Military Utility Assessments are: (1) Conduct multiple airborne mission demonstrations against challenging CC&D/OTs using a tailorable C-130 multi-sensor system complete with on-board multi-phenomenology data fusion and ground PED, (2) Demonstrate and assess sensor cross-cueing/collaboration techniques for both baseline/new electro-optical/radar sensors and maturing MASINT sensors (to include low frequency/Multi-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (MB-SAR), and hyperspectral imaging (i.e., Spectral Infrared Remote Imaging Transition Testbed (SPIRITT)), (3) Demonstrate dynamic in-flight mission tasking against emerging/evolving target sets, (4) Publish an OUA of the capabilities demonstrated and develop joint CONOPS and TTPs for COCOM target sets that will help the MAJCOM to develop sensor-mix strategies for COMCOM Target sets/missions and develop theater specific CONOPS to enable new collection capabilities to be integrated into the COCOM intelligence production cycle, (5) Maintain operation readiness, in flight status, for Extended Use of Residuals (EUR) assets to include a DIA SHADOW HARVEST system available for USAF and DIA tasking until transition to POR.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 9cca026475fe00f07280be8d313fe08e