General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has completed participation in NATOs’ Unified Vision trial with a range of sensors operating off an MQ-9 Reaper surrogate in the form of a King Air 350, the company said Tuesday.
The trial was sponsored by NATO’s Joint Capability Group on Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance.
General Atomics employed a Lynx Block 20A Multi-mode Radar, a FLIR Star SAFIRE 3800HD Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor, and L-3 Com Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL), along with General Atomics’ Claw payload management software, a system for tactical archival, retrieval, and exploitation (STARE) software, and Link 16 integration.
“Our sensor management system takes FMV [Full Motion Video] and radar feeds from the Reaper surrogate and other platforms and makes them available to the NATO ISR enterprise,” said Linden P. Blue, General Atomics’ CEO.
General Atomics said the use of the STARE system filled gaps in collecting and disseminating synthetic aperture radar imagery of stationary and moving target information in ground and maritime environments.
The trial took place May 19-28 in Norway.
General Atomics said STARE also was utilized to rebroadcast and share Reaper and other NATO ISR data successfully across multiple levels of security to unclassified and classified NATO network partners, and provide “Reaper” Link 16 position and targeting information to all NATO air assets in the trial.