Enhanced Medium Alt Recon Surv Sys
Abstract
The Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (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 as a single platform 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. EMARSS' flexibility, endurance, sensor capability, communications architecture, and Processing, Exploitation & Dissemination (PED) support is relevant to the entire Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, and Disseminate (F3EAD) cycle. The EMARSS funding line contains funding for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low - Enhanced (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 the 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 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 Augmentation System (WAAS), Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and Hyper Spectral Imaging (HSI) sensors. FY15 Base funding in the amount of $17.748 million funds research and development activities for EMARSS in the amount of $7.574 million and ARL-E in the amount of $10.174 million. EMARSS portion, in the amount of $7.574 million, funds sensor related Engineering Change Proposals (ECP) and contractor system support. ARL-E portion, in the amount of $10.174 million, funds the engineering, manufacturing and development of a Long Range radar prototype to replace the current ARL Phoenix Eye to meet requirement for increased performance for ARL-E. Funding will also provide design of the COMINT Direction Finding (DF) antenna array for integration on the replacement aircraft for ARL-E. The Radar and COMINT systems will be integrated into DCH-8 platforms.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- AC5_0605626A_5_2040_PB_2015
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