Raytheon and Logos partner on intelligent sensor systems

Land October 24, 2016

Raytheon’s and Logos’ wide-area motion imagery technology will be integrated into a modular, lightweight sensor systems.

Defence technology business Raytheon Company has begun working with Logos Technologies in a move which has seen the pair develop a new range of multi-intelligence (multi-INT) sensor systems to address challenging intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements.

Raytheon’s high-definition Multi-Spectral Targeting System, or MTS, and Logos’ wide-area motion imagery, or WAMI, technology will be integrated into a modular, lightweight sensor system which, the businesses say, will be suitable for a wide range of platforms.

When operated in collaboration with an MTS, it is claimed that Logos’ WAMI sensor can detect, track and cross-cue multiple vehicles and dismounts moving over an entire city-sized area, providing unprecedented elements of situational awareness for the combined Raytheon/Logos multi-INT system.

This new system will support multiple sensor types, depending on video or FMV, hyperspectral imaging, light detection and ranging, and signals intelligence. The new sensor system will also allow military ISR operators to use multi-sensor data to detect, recognise and identify hard-to-find targets across wide areas and in near-real time without extensive post-mission processing.

Fred Darlington, Vice President of ISR Systems at Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems division, said: “Combining high-resolution FMV, wide-area motion ISR and other sensor modalities delivers an unparalleled advantage in real-time processing and data exploitation.”

First used by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, WAMI technology was recently deployed to help protect crowds at the 2016 Summer Olympics. “WAMI provides the ability to monitor an entire city-sized area at once,” said John Marion, President of Logos Technologies. “You can track – from the air and in near-real time – multiple suspects scattering in different directions and see where they’re going, who they meet up with and where they’ve been.”

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Mark Lane is a defence writer for defenceonline.co.uk and the MoD’s Defence Contracts Bulletin. He is also editor of Global Trader, sub-editor of Insider Scotland and a former editor of Business Today.

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