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PE 0305206A: Airborne Reconnaissance Systems
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Exhibit R-2, RDT&E Budget Item Justification: PB2021Army
Date: February 2020
Appropriation/Budget Activity
2040: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army / BA 7: Operational
Systems Development
R-1 Program Element (Number/Name)
PE 0305206A / Airborne Reconnaissance Systems
COST ($ in Millions)
Prior
Years FY 2019 FY 2020
FY 2021
Base
FY 2021
OCO
FY 2021
Total FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025
Cost To
Complete
Total
Cost
Total Program Element
- 26.416 13.177 13.283 15.575 28.858 21.386 16.444 21.830 29.224 0.000 157.335
EH2: EMARSS ADV DEV (MIP)
- 3.205 3.218 1.998 - 1.998 2.009 2.049 5.730 18.951 0.000 37.160
EH3: EMARSS Payloads ADV
DEV (MIP)
- 6.531 5.959 6.290 - 6.290 6.486 6.616 6.936 7.006 0.000 45.824
EH5: ARL Payloads ADV DEV
(MIP)
- 15.980 2.000 0.999 15.575 16.574 8.495 7.779 9.164 3.267 0.000 63.259
EH7: Guardrail Common Sensor
(GRCS) Payloads (MIP)
- 0.700 2.000 3.996 - 3.996 4.396 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 11.092
A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification
The Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) is the Army's newest generation C-12 based, direct support, manned airborne
intelligence collection, processing, and targeting support system. It provides a persistent capability to detect, locate, classify/identify, and track surface targets with a high
degree of timeliness and accuracy. EMARSS is assigned to the United States (U.S.) Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Aerial Exploitation Battalions,
providing Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance support to combatant commanders. EMARSS is also assigned to the United States Army Training and
Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in support of training at the US Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE). The Army Acquisition Objective for EMARSS is
36 systems, with an Army Procurement Objective of 24, to include the following variants: eight (8) EMARSS-G (Geo-INT); four (4) EMARSS-V (Vehicle and Dismount
Exploitation Radar, VaDER); eight (8) EMARSS-M (Multi-INT); and four (4) EMARSS-S (SIGINT). Budget Item Justification is addressed in each Project.
Airborne Reconnaissance Low - Enhanced (ARL-E) is a worldwide self-deployable airborne Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) system designed for timely,
accurate, assured support to tactical forces over the full spectrum of operations. This system is a De Havilland DHC-8 aircraft replacing the DHC-7 in accordance with
the Aerial ISR (AISR) 2020 Strategy. ARL-E will enhance the ARL-M sensor capability sets through the procurement of new and refurbished sensors to meet the ARL-
E Capabilities Production Document (CPD) requirements. It provides a persistent capability to include: Broad-Area Surveillance and/or Focused Stare on Target Areas
of Interest (Point or Objective Targets), Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR)/Full-Motion Video (FMV) , Multi-Mode Radar, Robust Communications Intelligence (COMINT),
on-Board Collection, Analysis, Sensor Cross Cue and dissemination through Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Enabled workstations. ARL-E will
be assigned to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command's Aerial ISR Brigade providing AISR support to combatant commanders. For the overall system, the
Army Acquisition Objective and the Army Procurement Objective, is nine (9). The Mission Equipment Package (MEP) objective is eight (8). Budget Item Justification is
addressed in each Project.
The RC-12X Guardrail Common Sensor (GRCS) is a fixed-wing, airborne COMINT and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) collection and precision targeting location system.
GRCS provides a persistent capability to detect, locate and classify/identify high value targets with a relevant degree of timeliness and accuracy. GRCS is assigned to
two (2) U.S. Army INSCOM Aerial Exploitation Battalions providing Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (AISR) support to combatant commanders. The
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