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UAS ISR Sensors Roadmap Update to

26th Annual AUVSI Pathfinder Symposium

19 March 2015

COL Casimir (Casey) Carey Director, U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command Capability Manager for Intelligence Sensors

(TCM Intel Sensors) U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence

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TCM Intel Sensors’ Mission

The US Army’s centralized manager for all capabilities development and user activities associated with Army aerial and terrestrial layer Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms and sensors to include: manned airborne ISR aircraft systems; ISR sensor payloads for Army unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and ground-based systems; and Aerial Precision Geolocation (APG) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Terminal Guidance (STG) capabilities. (TCM IS Charter dtd 9 Jul 13)

Manned AISR Systems

•  Airborne Reconnaissance Low – Enhanced (ARL-E)

•  Enhanced Medium-Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS)

•  Guardrail Common Sensor (GRCS)

UAS/Advanced AISR Sensors

•  STARLite (SAR/GMTI) Payload •  Tactical SIGINT Payload (TSP) •  Counter-Concealment Sensors (C-CS) (a Family of Sensors) •  Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (VADER) •  Persistent Surveillance Systems -

Tethered (PSS-T)

Ground ISR Sensors

•  Prophet (Family of Systems)

ARL-E

GRCS

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TSP

STARLite

Counter-Concealment Sensors

VADER

PSS-T

Prophet ES 1/1+

Prophet Bridging Strategy System (Multi-intelligence)

Prophet Control

EMARSS

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2030 Sensing Concept

Enhanced Situational Understanding Enabled Through Advanced Automation to Provide Actionable Combat Information

Warfighter

ARL-­‐E  

Gray  Eagle  

EMARSS  

Multi INT Product

FOPEN Detects

Reference Image

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UAS/Advanced AISR Sensor Programs

PROGRAM Description Army Operational Concept Linkage

STARLite SAR/MTI w/ H-POL

The STARLite ER sensor is a day and night, near all weather Radar system that provides SAR imagery and MTI detection and tracking of target; HPOL adds change detection algorithms and polarity.

•  Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) detects stationary targets through atmospherics and obscurants

•  Moving Target Indicator (MTI) to develop forensics of movement to patterns of life

•  Change Detection. Various algorithms to identify changes that have occurred (magnitude, coherent, nominal)

•  Provides a wide area reconnaissance and surveillance

Enhanced EO/IR/HD

The Common Sensor Payload (CSP) is an off-the shelf/non-developmental EO/IR/LD sensor that provides a robust, advanced state-of-art sensor suite to collect critical information for all members of the air-ground maneuver team.

•  Goal: Build on Army investment in CSP •  Assists Commanders to develop and sustain a high

degree of situational awareness •  Key Attributes: HD Dual-Band Infrared - (MWIR/LWIR),

Improved Target Tracking, Automated Step-Stare, Picture-in-Picture Viewing

Tactical SIGINT Payload (TSP)

TSP capability enables COMINT detection, identification, collection, direction finding (DF), and high confidence geolocation of conventional and modern signals.

•  Provides accurate, timely, and relevant knowledge about the threat and other aspects of the operational environment to reduce uncertainty

•  Provides support to analysis of enemy composition and intent

•  Leverages national, theater, joint and Army SIGINT collection capabilities to provide precision geolocation of threat emitters 4

Army Operating Concept (AOC): To win in a complex world, commanders require intelligence assisting them in visualizing the operational environment, organizing forces, and controlling operations to achieve the desired tactical objectives or end-state. (AOC: 7 October 2014)

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Sensor Desired Attributes Mission Remarks

LIDAR

•  Terrain Visualization provides the ability to extract three (3) layers of interest: Bare Earth (BE), Feature Extraction (FE), and Human Activity Level (HAL)

•  Multi-INT Fusion LIDAR pairing with other high resolution sensors

•  Provide highly accurate orthorectified 3D imagery for target detection, foliage penetration and change detection

•  No current Geiger-mode capability in Army, Navy or USAF

HSI

•  Identification to sub-pixel level allowing differentiation of natural and manmade objects

•  Terrain categorization and vegetation analysis identifies and classifies built up areas, roads, vegetation, and illicit crops

•  Provide airborne hyper-spectral stand-off detection of chemicals, effluents, and other compounds

•  No current full spectrum HSI capability across Aerial Layer

Next-Gen

EO/IR/HD

•  HD Multi-Band Infrared - (MWIR/LWIR/SWIR) for improved haze penetration/adverse weather performance

•  HD Image Intensifier - Improves detections at greater range in low light environments

•  Image Fusion - Reduces data bandwidth requirements, Improves target DRI

•  Provide EO/IR HD FMV capability to detect and identify targets of interest at improved standoff, Improved Geolocation accuracy and Tactical Awareness tools

•  Advanced EO/IR sensor capability will deliver greater range, resolution and fused/blended visualization; will also require greater bandwidth

WAAS

•  Day/night motion imagery system that provides sustained situational awareness over a 7+ km diameter area

•  Multiple, simultaneous video windows with independent C2 of sensor over IP

•  Provide wide area surveillance with a resolution sufficient to detect and track HVT/HVI in complex terrain

•  Existing capability limited to 5 sensors on manned platform will be obsolete by FY19

FOPEN

•  Target detection in light, medium and heavily attenuated environments or other CC&D conditions

•  Multiple collection modes (Spot, Strip, Circle/360o, multi polarization) at various resolutions and area coverage

•  Provides a long-range, wide-area, near-real-time detection of targets under foliage in a form-function compatible for multiple platform applications

•  No Army foliage penetration capability

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UAS/Advanced AISR Projected Sensor Programs

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Sensor Dependencies

Sensors Vision Statement: Sensors must provide the level of responsiveness, reliability, resolution, and target identification necessary to accomplish the mission.