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 Payloads will consist of Mission Equipment Packages (MEP) and Processing Exploitation & Dissemination commercial derivative equipment such as, 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 Distributed Common Ground System - Army (DCGS-A) enabled operator workstations and a self-protection suite. Payloads integrated on platforms will include: niche capabilities such as Wide Area Aerial Surveillance (WAAS), Light Imaging Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and improved Synthetic Aperture Radar / Moving Target Indicator (SAR/MTI) radar capability. EMARSS will operate in direct support of tactical missions. EMARSS, integrating elements of the DCGS-A, will provide provide a near real-time response to Combat Forces with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) tasking. The FY 2015 EMARSS funding line contains $10.174 million 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 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 Aerial Surveillance (WAAS), Light Imaging Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Hyper Spectral Imaging (HSI) sensors. FY 2016 RDTE funding in the amount of $0.002 million provides Interim Contractor Logistics support.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- AC5_0605626A_5_2040_PB_2016
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