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Home » Comms » An FCS Bridge to the Cold War

An FCS Bridge to the Cold War

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The future is now.

Or maybe a year to 18 months from now.

That’s about how long it would take L3 Communications to prep and demon­strate extend­ing Future Combat Systems capa­bil­i­ties to the Army’s Cold War gen­er­a­tion systems.

FCS envi­sions all bat­tle­space intel — drawn from satel­lites, elec­tronic war­fare air­craft and other sig­nal intel­li­gence plat­forms — feed­ing all tar­get­ing data to its sig­nals intel­li­gence ground sta­tion called Prophet, a trio of vehi­cles linked to a Humvee-​​based com­mand sta­tion. The data is crunched or fused at Prophet, cre­at­ing an accu­rate and com­plete pic­ture of the bat­tle­space and tar­gets that then can be dis­patched to a com­bat unit or vehicle.

But FCS as envi­sioned extends to just a rel­a­tive hand­ful — maybe 15 to 17 — of the Army’s 70-​​plus brigades.

Left out of the vision will be the Army’s M1 tanks and Bradley fight­ing vehi­cles, says Mark Landrith, direc­tor of com­bat sys­tems for L3’s ComCept division.

What L3 pro­poses is bridg­ing the older plat­forms with the FCS, so that every Army brigade will have the same kind of capabilities.

Landrith said a demon­stra­tion could be read­ied any­where from 12 to 18 months from now if the Army wanted a test. He said a lim­ited demon­stra­tion might trans­mit data from an RC-​​135V/​W Rivet Joint sur­veil­lance to the Prophet sys­tem, and from there to what­ever vehi­cle was selected for the test.

The demon­stra­tion would cost in the area of about $1 mil­lion, he estimated.

– Bryant Jordan

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  1. Greg says:
    October 9, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    Actually, there is a project called FCS “Spinout” where many of the tech­nolo­gies from FCS will be spun out into use for other pro­grams and other vehi­cles, mainly the elec­tron­ics, includ­ing the com­puter sys­tems, the com­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tems, power gen­er­a­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion, etc. It could take the Abrams from an M1A2 to an M1A3. It’s already in the FCS con­tract, and Abrams and Stryker (and I assume Bradley) already are work­ing on how they will incor­po­rate this new tech­nol­ogy. Whether all brigades will get these new Abrams, Strykers or Bradleys, I don’t know, but they will be upgraded.
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    October 10, 2007 at 10:02 am

    This is NOT good news for FCS.
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