ISR and SIGINT
ISR AND SIGINT
As a premier Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) systems developer and integrator of airborne ISR platforms, our capabilities are vertically integrated for quick-reaction support. L3Harris delivers the highest performing and most responsive air/ground SIGINT and ISR for the United States’ and partner nations’ most sensitive missions.
OUR COMMITMENT IS TO DELIVER MISSION RELEVANT, AFFORDABLE AND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO OUR GLOBAL PARTNERS
Using scaled technology developed over the past 65 years through company investment and partnering with the DoD, L3Harris delivers best-in-class ISR, SIGINT and strategic communications systems. Our ISR platform solutions and services provide modern and advanced integration techniques fusing on-board and off-board collection and targeting data into customized airborne mission system solutions.
L3Harris has extensive experience integrating ISR payloads onto military and commercial aircraft, and its mission systems, platforms, direct operators and sustainment teams have supported more than 1.5 million combat hours of special operations ISR and attack missions.
L3Harris’ ISR solutions include the integration of complex ISR and electronic warfare systems integration on diverse military, civil and commercial aircraft platforms, providing full service support including major aircraft design, manufacturing, modification, testing, certification and life-cycle sustainment.
L3Harris’ WESCAM MX™-Series portfolio of multi-sensor, multi-spectral electro-optical and infrared imaging and targeting systems are deployed worldwide, at varying ranges, and with overlapping fields-of-view, creating the opportunity for uninterrupted surveillance of borders, forward operating bases, airfields and other vital assets.
L3Harris’ integration solutions can be enhanced with its platform-agnostic modular open system architecture (MOSA), which is key to the swift modification of the airborne ISR capabilities. The company’s MOSA enables rapid integration of new technology while avoiding vendor lock, which reduces the customer’s schedule risk and overall cost of future upgrades.
MULTI-MISSION AIRCRAFT CAPABILITY IN ONE DEPLOYABLE AND RESILIENT PACKAGE
Multi-mission platforms provide the operator agility and flexibility to identify, track and react to counter threats. It merges the capabilities of larger ISR and armed aircraft into one resilient package. It is also capable of takeoff and landing on unimproved airstrips – allowing the aircraft to be deployed and co-located with special mission operators.
Sky Warden’s name commemorates two best-in-class, multi-mission special operations combat platforms. It merges the deep history of the Vietnam era A-1E Sky Raider with the present-day U-28, which uses the callsign “Warden” during combat operations. Sky Warden combines their heritage and capabilities to collapse the stack, providing one aircraft capable of multiple mission roles.
INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE ENVIRONMENTS
L3Harris’ next generation integration architecture provides mission-to-mission reconfiguration and achieves true plug-and-play capability through its ability to accommodate current and future sensors.
Today’s complex intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) environment requires complete end-to-end solutions that are as nimble and adaptive as the targets they track. No other small manned airborne ISR platform has the proven performance or is as mission-ready as SPYDR RAPDS.
The key to SPYDR is the Rapid Aircraft Payload Deployment System (RAPDS), which enables the execution of a wide range of missions from a single platform. SPYDR RAPDS is an agile, flexible multi-INT solution for the rapid delivery and deployment of mature ISR systems in highly adaptable flight platforms. Its proven systems are born from L3Harris’ comprehensive ISR expertise as the leading provider of manned ISR platforms. Configured using a modular, spiral approach, SPYDR reacts quickly and adapts effortlessly to meet changing mission requirements.
SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS
L3Harris is an industry leading provider of full-spectrum SIGINT capability with its scalable family of system (FoS) solutions. Our FoS approach to SIGINT payloads allows us to offer capabilities across all domains to address communications intelligence (COMINT) and electronic intelligence (ELINT) requirements.
Within the airborne domain, we are focused on both medium-altitude and high-altitude capabilities. Current integrated applications are available ranging from business jet class Strategic Airborne ISR to small, manned aircraft as well as unmanned aircraft.