FCS Network - Sensors and Platforms Layer
The Sensors and Platforms Layer is comprised of a distributed and networked array of multi-spectral sensors that provide the FCS (BCT) with the ability to "see first." Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensors will be integrated onto all manned ground vehicles, all unmanned ground vehicles and all classes of unmanned aerial vehicles within the FCS (BCT). These sensors will be capable of accomplishing a variety of collection missions including Wide Area Surveillance (WAS), Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA), Mobility and Survivability.
In addition to collecting data locally within the FCS (BCT) area of operations, the ISR Layer architecture will facilitate the fusion of Joint, Current Force and national sensor data into the COP through the Distributed Common Ground System - Army (DCGS-A). The sensor data collect from FCS (BCT) internal, Current Force, Joint, and National sensors will provide timely and accurate situational awareness (SA), enhance survivability by avoiding enemy fires, enable precision networked fires, and maintain contact throughout an engagement.
Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillanceassets within the Modular Force -- as well as those external to the Modular Force and at higher echelons -- will provide timely and accurate situational awareness (SA), enhance survivability by avoiding enemy fires, enable precision networked fires, and maintain contact throughout engagement. FCS will process real-time ISR data, outputs from survivability systems, situational awareness (SA) data and target identification information to update the common operating picture (COP) containing information on friendly forces, battlespace objects (BSOs), BSO groupings and their associated intent, threat potential and vulnerabilities. The real-time distribution and dissemination of information and data are reliant on robust, reliable, and high-capacity network data links.
To provide warfighters with current, accurate, and actionable information, the data from the various distributed ISR and other external sensor assets are subject to complex data processing, filtering, correlation, aided target recognition and fusion (level 0 and 1 automated fusion, and levels 2-5 semi-automated fusion). The Sensor Data Management (SDM) software organizes all the sensor data - including detection reports - and tracks information as received from the sensor packages.
Data are then processed and fused to synthesize information about the object, situation, threat and ongoing intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) processes. In addition to receiving data from FCS organic sensors, Sensor Data Management (SDM) has the capability to receive sensor data from nonorganic sources including, current forces and Joint, Interagency, and Multinational (JIM). Sensor Data Management (SDM) will perform sensor data format conversions to output the data in FCS standard data formats.
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