Intelligence Systems Development

NSSS provides research and development, and rapid prototyping to support the USSOCOM TENCAP program and supporting capabilities. NSSS improves the combat effectiveness of the USSOCOM, its components, and the Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOC) by providing innovative space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) technologies and system enhancements, products, and special communications capabilities to tactical SOF units. NSSS leverages current and developmental National, Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial systems to augment, support, and integrate with the USSOCOM systems. Focus areas include Enhanced Situational Awareness (ESA), Tactical Target Acquisition (TTA), Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Special Communications, and intelligence fusion, reporting, and dissemination. NSSS efforts are characterized by rapid prototype development to transition to the USSOCOM Program of Record (PoR) while leveraging existing national, DoD and commercial space-based assets and integration of SO-p satellite payloads via integration with other government ground and space architectures. NSSS projects transition into multiple programs of record and thus feed multiple acquisition pathways including major capability acquisitions, software acquisitions, middle tier acquisitions, and urgent capability acquisitions.

This program provides SOF with critical Special Reconnaissance equipment that directly supports the planning and execution of SOF missions. This capability allows the SOF warfighter to meet mission requirements to find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, and disseminate information of an adversary’s movement, construct, identification, location, and associated activities. The TVS/RSTA provides Global Combatant Commanders and SOF operators with an immediate capability to visually and electronically identify people, things, and activities and provides actionable intelligence for SOF planners and Commanders. The Family of Systems consists of interoperable equipment to capture and transfer near-real-time ground-based, tactical day/night/reduced visibility, imagery, video, and electronic proximity and movement sensing, all capable of dissemination through SOF organic, global C4I, and commercial communications infrastructures. The TVS/RSTA directly supports the 2025 Interim National Defense Strategy priority defending the home with continuous development of economical surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.

This program collects and produces current, detailed, tactical planning data to support military operations to counter threats against U.S. citizens, interests, and property located both domestically and overseas. The ISP products are specifically tailored packages that provide operational information and intelligence data for use by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Department of State to support operational planners for counter-terrorism operations, evacuations, and other rescue missions.

This program provides rapid and focused acquisition for state-of-the art forensic Identity Operation capabilities as a mission enabler for the five operational pillars of Irregular Warfare and supports Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze and Disseminate (F3EAD) cycle. Exploitation Analysis Capability (EAC) is a modular and scalable SO-peculiar (SO-p) forensic laboratory environment utilized for more in-depth exploitation of captured exploitable material (CEM). Biometrics enable the collection and transmission of unique and measurable human signatures that are then used to verify against or enroll into the DoD authoritative databases. Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) is a scalable, modular, and adaptable multi-disciplined capability that provides the means to identify, exploit, translate and produce reports on documents and electronic media of immediate tactical value. Forensic exploitation is a scalable, modular and adaptable multi-disciplined forensic science capability to recover, identify, and conduct analysis of chemistry based Collectible Exploitable Material (CEM). Supports the 2025 Interim National Defense Strategy; CEM sharing with foreign partners and provides intelligence to advance regional security goals that implement the higher-level aims of integrated deterrence.

The SOF SIGINT PED SD is a family of products and services providing ISR and analytical capabilities at the Joint Task Force level and below through a combination of reachback, forward support and collaboration. The program supports all Components and TSOCs with capability that interconnects warfighters, sensors, and analytic tools to find and fix enemy combatants and/or terrorists, as well as information sharing across the USSOCOM Enterprise and the DoD. The SIGINT PED SD provides SIGINT exploitation in both garrison and deployed environments in support of multi-domain SOF operations in contested environments supporting integrated deterrence.

The program provides Group One and Group Two small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (sUAS), small Uncrewed Ground Systems (sUGS) and specialized payloads that empower SOF Operators with unparalleled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities that meet the unique demands of SOF missions across multiples domains in the most challenging environments. sUMS development focuses on a reduction in the operator cognitive workload through an integrated suite or stealthy, autonomous and AI enabled systems that penetrate and persist in denied environments, provide continuous over-watch, rapidly pinpoint and prosecute time-sensitive targets, and over-match our adversaries - making our SOF teams ubiquitous, undetectable, and unbeatable on the modern battlefield.

The MTUAS program provides Naval Special Warfare (NSW) with an organic Unmanned Aircraft System for tactical imagery and signals intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability to find, fix, and finish enemy combatants.

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