[iwar] [fc:A.Few.Big.Winners.Expected.To.Dominate.Sigint.Field]

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Aviation Week &amp; Space Technology
January 14, 2002
Pg. 407
A Few Big Winners Expected To Dominate Sigint Field
By David A. Fulghum, Washington
While competition goes on for signals intelligence programs such as a
follow-on to the ill-starred Joint Sigint Avionics Family, there also is an
unseen, parallel battle being waged in the world of classified programs. 
The prize will be survival and perhaps supremacy in the rapidly shrinking,
increasingly expensive arena of intelligence gathering. 
"The holy grail is fast, accurate integration of multi-source intelligence,"
a Navy official said. There is a major classified program being chased by
Northrop Grumman, Motorola, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and TRW that has the
potential to fulfill the longtime dream of fusing all the available
intelligence data into a single, tailored display. It would meld, for
example, the output from signals and communications intelligence, radar,
infrared and moving-target sensors. 
"The company that gets the nod on this grabs one of the last opportunities
for a large-scale development program," the Navy official said. "There
aren't many big programs left. The winner may be the last man standing in
the signals intelligence world." 
But if the prize is great, so is the technical challenge. 
"Integrating it all is really, really tough to do," he said. "Each
area--synthetic aperture radar, electronic intelligence, imagery, etc.--has
its own physics, accuracies, false alarm rates and timelines. Right now,
nobody can lay them over each other with accuracy." 
Unmanned aircraft also could become a key component in browsing a foe's
cyber systems looking for military and technology secrets. For example,
since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency has set its sights on electronic attack and
intelligence gathering through penetration of enemy computers, from both
manned and unmanned aircraft. Darpa programs are slated to get hundreds of
millions of dollars for research over the next few years. The aerospace
companies that specialize in reconnaissance and surveillance are also
positioning themselves to offer specialized systems in these areas.

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