An unblinking eye now watches over soldiers in the field and civilian populations in troubled areas, helping tackle crime and violent insurgency day and night.

Mountable on a wide range of aircraft, BAE Systems’ AWAPSS sensor module provides complete situational awareness, capturing constant metre-fine video over a diameter of up to eight kilometres.

AWAPSS uses two 100 megapixel cameras – one for visible light, another for infa-red – to record and relay the minutiae of street and rooftop activity across entire towns. Used in real time or after the event, AWAPSS data increases mission effectiveness and survivability, by helping to expose the actions and behaviors of enemy vehicles, soldiers, and other asymmetric threats.
 

It looks like the stuff of science fiction - 3D mission modelling over detailed terrain - with all airborne and ground assets identified and accessible through an intuitive and information-rich interface. But CAGE is already providing rapid and accurate mission management, planning and control capabilities in theatres including Iraq and Afghanistan.

CAGE is a single unified environment, in which missions can be planned, briefed and controlled with pinpoint precision. It seamlessly combines a wealth of operational and support information, to enable and execute complex operational decisions, mid-mission, with little or no lead time.

From route planning and fly-throughs to aircraft performance modelling and damage assessment, CAGE integrates closely with in-flight systems and sources of real-time information, to shorten the effective distance between soldiers in the field and command resources.

SAFF Link 16

At its heart, any effective situational awareness solution must be underpinned by robust, flexible and powerful channels of communication. In the face of increasingly technologically advanced enemies waging asymmetric warfare, keeping these channels open has become a critical concern.

The SAFF Link 16 terminal may come in a package small enough to meet the stringent size, weight, and power requirements of ground tactical vehicles, unmanned air vehicle and airborne platforms, but it makes no compromises on sophistication.

Using next-generation technology to bring encrypted, fast, jam-resistant connectivity to a host of additional platforms, the modular SAFF Link 16 ensures there are no weak links or blind spots in the communication chain.