Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Northrop Grumman is developing two prototype ground stations for the Army's Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node system, or TITAN, the company announced today in a press release.
Northrop was selected by the Army and the Defense Innovation Unit to provide prototypes for the service's mobile intelligence ground station architecture that will provide access to low-earth orbit satellites.
"Our ground station prototypes will integrate existing software and hardware capabilities to showcase a unique ability to provide access to multi-domain actionable intelligence from commercial and military space systems," Troy Brashear, Northrop Grumman vice president for integrated national systems, said in a statement.
Northrop Grumman's TITAN prototypes "will demonstrate the value of space assets in improving battlefield awareness and tactical intelligence in anti-access/area denial environments," the press release states.
The system will provide real-time intelligence using artificial intelligence algorithms to deliver data to weapon platforms and will maximize the effectiveness of Long Range Precision Fires and reduce sensor-to-shooter timelines, according to the release.
The Army plans to award an other transaction agreement for TITAN and deliver the system in the FY-23 to FY-24 timeframe, Col. Thomas Nguyen, a project manager with the Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, told Inside Defense in April.
Northrop Grumman's prototypes will support upcoming exercises and experimentations in FY-22, which will incorporate soldier touchpoints to inform system development.
"A separate TITAN acquisition will provide mobile ground stations that link to terrestrial, high-altitude and airborne sensors to provide targeting data to the Army," the release states. "Northrop Grumman teams recently demonstrated a software architecture to the Army that is capable of fusing multi-domain sensor data and reducing the sensor-to-shooter timelines. This common software architecture is the basis of the Northrop Grumman space-to-ground TITAN prototype system, potentially enhancing the integration of space-based data systems with the mobile ground stations in later phases of the TITAN program."