BAE Systems announced on 6 August 2024 that it has been awarded a USD 48 million (EUR 44 million) contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to further advance the Insight system: a next-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and resource management (E&RM) system.
Originally managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Insight programme aims to develop an adaptable, integrated human-machine E&RM system to make it easier for intelligence analysts to derive actionable intelligence from a burgeoning number of sensors and data sources.
A key feature of this effort focuses on development and integration with airborne applications including Resolute Sentry, which provides real-time multi-domain battlespace awareness in highly contested environments. As part of this award BAE Systems will mature components of the Insight system to meet operational requirements through enhancements, accomplish integration with developmental and operational systems, and conduct demonstrations for transition opportunities.
“This latest Insight award demonstrates the confidence the government has in BAE Systems’ ability to deliver complex solutions to tough operational and intelligence challenges,” Meg Redlin, product line director for Mission Systems at BAE Systems, was quoted as saying in a company press release. “This also highlights our collaboration with our FAST Labs research and development organisation and our commitment to developing and eventually transitioning technology.”
BAE Systems’ efforts under this latest award effort will continue the work done on previous contracts to provide techniques for generating threat course-of-action scores from multiple sensors, domains and information types, to include modelling, simulation, algorithm development, assessment, and demonstrations.
The company’s work on the Insight Integration programme will take place in San Diego, with distributed engineering teams across the United States, and furthers the technology that was initially developed by the company’s FAST Labs research and development organisation.
