Tactical Electronic Surveillance System - Adv Dev

Mission — Tactical Electronic Surveillance System - Adv Dev source

Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) exploits national intelligence capabilities to pace evolving threats in support of operations during conflict and competition. TENCAP systems and technologies provide deep sensing to support commanders' situational understanding (patterns of life, threat intentions, etc.), indications & warnings (detection of enemy mobilization and hostile activity), and intelligence support to targeting (order of battle, electronic target folders, target detection, Battle Damage Assessment, etc.). TENCAP systems and technologies support Theater-level fires and effects. TENCAP systems enable integrated Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) / Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) / Electronic Warfare (EW) / and Cyberspace operations. TENCAP supports Army modernization priorities including Long Range Precision Fires, Advanced Deep Sensing (ADS), Future Vertical Lift (FVL), and Air Missile Defense (AMD). In summary, TENCAP is a key enabler to defeating peer competitor Anti-Access / Area-Denial (A2/AD) strategies. Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) accomplishes the Army's Tactical Electronic Surveillance System Advance Development by leveraging National Intelligence Community (IC) capabilities through cross-agency engineering to evaluate, enhance, prototype, and transition Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) technologies/capabilities from the IC into Army systems and architectures. This Program Element includes three projects: 1) TENCAP Core project (907). 2) Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) (space) advanced development project (BX9). 3) Low Earth Orbit ISR (LEO ISR) development project (CC5).

Mission — Tactical Exploitation Of National Capabilities source

TENCAP exploits national capabilities to pace evolving threats in support of operations during conflict and competition. TENCAP systems and technologies provide deep sensing to support commanders' situational understanding (patterns of life, threat intentions, etc.), indications & warnings (detection of enemy mobilization and hostile activity), and intelligence support to targeting (order of battle, electronic target folders, target detection, Battle Damage Assessment, etc.). TENCAP systems and technologies support Theater-level fires and effects, TENCAP systems enable integrated Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) / Electronic Warfare (EW) / and Cyberspace operations. TENCAP supports Army modernization priorities including Long Range Precision Fires, Advanced Deep Sensing (ADS), and Future Vertical Lift (FVL). In summary, TENCAP is a key enabler to defeating peer competitor Anti-Access / Area-Denial (A2/AD) strategies. The Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office serves as the Army's centralized lead to perform National Intelligence cross-agency engineering to evaluate, enhance, prototype, and transition Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) technologies/capabilities from the National Intelligence Community (IC) into Army systems and architectures. TENCAP programs perform two vital functions for the Army's Warfighters: (1) ensures assured access to current and future National and Commercial sensors and supporting tactical architectures; and (2) exploits and influences new developments that focus on improving the Analysis and Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination (TCPED) of intelligence data. FY2026 Base dollars in the amount of $98.401 million enables systems engineering and collaborative development and prototyping on multiple National Intelligence Community (IC) advanced software and prototype developments that leverage upcoming National IC investments for Army use. This collaborative environment ensures continuous Army interoperability with National IC assets and architectures, exploits advances in commercial imagery and signal technologies, and develops prototypes and enables development and integration of Iron Quest/Iron Neptune directly supporting the Army Warfighter.

Mission — Tactical Intel Targeting Access Node Adv Develop source

This project funds development and prototyping of space-to-ground station capabilities to provide timely assured access to National and Commercial Space-Based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensor data supporting commanders' situational understanding (patterns of life, threat intentions, etc.), indications & warnings (detection of enemy mobilization and hostile activity), and intelligence support to targeting (order of battle, electronic target folders, target detection, Battle Damage Assessment, etc.). Funding for TITAN Advance Development will also prototype software analytic capabilities to increase the speed, precision and accuracy of the intelligence cycle through Automated/Assisted Sensor-to-Shooter (S2S) workflows. These capabilities will be integrated into the TITAN Ground Station program. FY2026 base funding in the amount of $7.207 million enables the TENCAP program to provide Pre-Planned Program Improvements (P3I) engineering support to the TITAN Space Ground Station (SGS), and Space Ground Component Kits (SGCK) ensuring they continue to leverage legacy and emergent National Reconnaissance (NRO) Overhead Systems (NOS) and Commercial sensors in coordination with planned IC architectural changes. The TITAN (SGS) provide continuous development and continuous integration of next generation commercial and national space SIGINT and GEOINT sub-systems for specialized software improvements, Automated Target Recognition tools, and data-centric dissemination methods to support the Army's Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) priority. The SGCKs are a deliverable component to the TITAN program that provides TITAN access to space capabilities. The first SGCK was integrated into the TITAN program architecture in FY24 and consists of a mission critical small form-factor antenna and specialized processing software that provide rapid availability of National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Overhead Systems (NOS) Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) and Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) data from Theater, National and Commercial sources.

Mission — Low Earth Orbit (LEO) / Intel Surv Recon (ISR) source

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) directly supports the Army All Domain Sensing (ADS) Counter - Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Targeting (C-C5ISRT) Operations, Electronic Warfare (EW), Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) and Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) modernization priorities. The LEO ISR effort will provide prototyping, development, and experimentation of All Domain sensors and Effectors (including electro optical, synthetic aperture radar, radio frequency, and hyperspectral) and Counter - Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Targeting (C-C5ISRT) Operations, Electronic Warfare, (EW), Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) and Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (ALTPNT) systems, which are designed to provide wide-area, responsive, all domain sensing and alternative signal sources required for beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) targeting and force maneuver. The BLOS sensing will significantly reduce Sensor-to-Shooter (S2S) timelines and reliance on current, at-risk signal sources. Follow-on, persistent, prototype, tactical sensor and alternative signal capabilities will be integrated with the Army Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground station and theater gateways. The prototype sensor capabilities will provide direct tasking, assured access, and freedom of maneuver directly supporting live-fire, S2S demonstrations and assessments. FY2026 Base funding in the amount of $1.917 million provides prototyping, experimentation, and risk reduction activities to All Domain sensors and Effectors, C-C5ISRT, EW, NAVWAR and ALTPNT prototype systems, supporting wide-area, responsive, and deep-area sensing and force maneuver. It will enable ground stations to dynamically task, receive and disseminate data to directly support live-fire and Persistent Experimentation (PE) demonstrations and assessments.

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