EMARSS Payloads ADV DEV (MIP)
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). The Army Acquisition Objective (AAO) for EMARSS is 36 systems, the Army Procurement Objective (APO) is 24 systems and includes the following variants: EMARSS-G (Constant Hawk & TACOP LiDAR); EMARSS-V (VaDER); EMARSS-M (Liberty Project Aircraft (LPA)); and EMARSS-S (Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) systems. The modification and conversion leverages the following QRC systems: Constant Hawk (5); LPA (8); TACOP LiDAR (3); and VaDER (4) redeploying out of Afghanistan to meet the EMARSS Capabilities Production Document (CPD). 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 a near real-time response to Combat Forces with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) tasking. FY 2016 RDTE funding in the amount of $3.532 million funds the product enhancement, sensor engineering support, and test and evaluation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- EH3_0305206A_7_2040_PB_2016
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