Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)

ISR is a blended market that includes the specific Radar, EO/IR, Sonar and related Green Platforms that are primarily used for the missions of intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance. It also includes non-platform, non-sensor programs, electronic systems, and other activities supporting the collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence.

This document contains definitions for the market, customer missions, and market subsystem types.

The ISR Market includes:

System integration of complex ISR systems (e.g. MP-RTIP radars and STSS payloads);
Embedded computing capability for sensors;
Airborne, Ship, Satellite and Ground-based platforms whose primary missions include ISR;
Electronic systems assisting collection management, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information;
Human support activities involved in the collection, exploitation, and analysis of intelligence information;
Commercial collection of information of potential intelligence value, such as commercial satellite imagery and open source material;
Embedded computing capability supporting intelligence activities, such as data extraction and trend analysis;
Intelligence related training;
System integration of complex intelligence support systems.

The ISR Market does not include:

Radar or EO/IR systems that are primarily used for EW and Fire Control missions;
Information not available in open literature;
Acoustic systems (at this time);
Company-funded research and development;
Government budget for overhead and program management.

ISR Customer Function

Air Search	Air Search radars can be either ship or land based. These radars are used to search large areas in the sky for airborne objects such as aircraft, cruise missiles, rockets, artillery, and precision guided weapons. Air Search Radars provide tracking information on airborne targets to Search/Track/Target or fire control radars.
Air Traffic Control	Designed for en route and/or terminal air traffic management and control activities.
Attack Sub	Typically designated SSN, attack submarines are primarily hunter-killer oriented. Modern attack submarines can attack land targets as well as sea targets.
ATC Mil-Radar	Designed for en route and/or terminal air traffic management and control activities with highly developed integrator and transponder features as well as cold radar hits.
Collection	Activities which support the intelligence collection process, for example collection management. This also includes programs which actually collect information of potential intelligence value, such as commercial satellite imagery and open source material.
Communications	Systems that are designed specifically to provide communication through various media such as voice, data, and CW (Continuous Wave coded transmissions).
Counter-Battery	Systems designed to detect, track and fix the origin of ballistic ordnance (e.g., rockets, mortars and artillery shells.
Courseware	A program created for classroom training purposes. Most often courseware will be software-based or include software which is accessible via CD, DVD or the internet.
Cyber Attack	hardware, software, and services whose primary purpose is to attack and/or exploit civilian and military computer networks and the data they contain.
Cyber Security	hardware, software, and services whose primary purpose is to protect civilian and military computer networks and the data they contain. Cyber Security also includes response to attack/exploitation efforts that are defensive in nature.
Cyber Support	hardware, software and services whose primary purpose is related supporting roles such as maintenance, sustainment, education/training and compliance/governance.
DB Dev. (Intel)	Development of databases intended to assist directly or indirectly intelligence exploitation and analysis as well as collection management.
Dissemination	Equipment and activities predominantly involved in the dissemination of intelligence.
Early Warning	Primarily used for very long range detection and tracking of airborne or space borne objects.
ESM Receiver	A passive listening system that detects and provides the ability to analyze, record and/or automatically recognize intercepted signals. Electronic Support Measure (ESM) receivers can range from the relatively simple to the highly sophisticated..
EW Suite (EO/IR)	Used to identify electronic warfare countermeasures systems operating in the EO/IR electromagnetic frequency spectrum and employing more than one protective or attacking feature.
EW Suite (Radar)	Used to identify electronic warfare systems operating in the radar electromagnetic frequency spectrum and employing more than one protective or attacking feature.
Exploitation/Analysis	Both equipment and human activities that provide for the processing, exploitation and analysis of collected intelligence. This includes data extraction, trend analysis, information fusion and forecasting.
Ground Support	Aircraft with the primary design, loiter and range to support attacking and/or defending military ground operations.
Ground Surveillance	Land-based radar primarily intended to detect and track ground targets (including humans). Typical uses include force protection, homeland security, border surveillance, or industrial security applications. Capabilities could also include perimeter protection around sensitive areas and/or intrusion alerting.
HLS Intelligence & Information Sharing (HSL Int & Inf Share)	Equipment, systems, or services used to gather HLS-related intelligence and to share that intelligence within the HLS community.
HLS Networks	Wireless and hardwired connection of COTS terminals, radios, sensors, and/or command & control systems so that voice, video or data can be quickly and easily transmitted and/or received by a number of users at different locations for Homeland Security missions.
HLS Surveillance & Reconnaissance (HLS Surv & Recon)	Systems or services whose primary mission is to watch and observe known events, places, or conditions of primary interest to HLS organizations (surveillance); or to reconnoiter for suspected events of primary interest to HLS organizations.
Instruction	Training and education services related to the use of simulators and /or training services that are conducted with the use of a simulator.
Intel/Surveillance	Ships equipped to collect information on adversary operations and technology by means of passive interception and analysis of communications and other electronic signals, and/or collection of acoustic intelligence in the undersea domain. May include electronic countermeasures/jamming capability.
ISR C2	Systems which by design are primarily focused on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations and management and, to a lesser extent, management of Air and Missile Defense, Battle Management, strategic, tactical or space operational resources and assets.
ISR Data Link	Used to rapidly transmit a large amount of data and/or video from ISR collection platforms and use higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths to achieve the high data rates required. Examples include the Common Data Link (CDL), Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL), Multi-Platform Common Data Link (MP-CDL) and the Common Data Link-Navy (CDL-N).
Launcher-UAV	Air, land, sea device to hold and launch a UAV.
Live Training Support	Assistance with live field training exercises. Examples include: preparing the physical training environment; integrating tactical support systems; maintaining necessary conditions in the training environment, tracking and measuring training performance; and providing role players, set design and battlefield effects.
Maintenance Simulator	Used to train military personnel on the repair and maintenance tasks for a specific platform or system. Example: Stryker maintenance trainer.
Meteorological	Used for the monitoring of weather and atmospheric conditions.
Mine Warfare	Those platforms with the capability to detect and/or clear mines.
Mission Simulator	Simulates the platform (e.g. aircraft) in the environment in which it typically operates, enabling training in all aspects of a realistic mission scenario. This category also includes part-task trainers used to train warfighters on specific procedures related to an individual task on a platform. Examples: loadmaster trainer, weapons loading trainer.
Multi-function	Systems that perform more than one of the functions in this list (of similar priority).
Multiple RF Functions	This category includes any instance when the record involves more than one RF electronics functional segmentation category, for example, F-35 ICNI where several communications and avionics functions reside in one set of host processors.
Multirole	This category includes any instance where the record involves more than one functional segmentation category.
Multi-Role Electronic	Any one of several vehicles (Land, Sea, Air, Space) especially designed and operating with various C2 and/or ISR payloads, characterized by low quantity, high value, and combat adverse features.
Multi-Role ISR	A platform or system which can accomplish more than one ISR mission, for example collecting imagery as well as signals intelligence.
Multi-Role Strike	A platform or system which is used for multiple roles in addition to its Strike and Combat duties, for example it may also be used for ISR purposes.
Navigation	Primarily used for map-of-the-earth flight control, obstacle avoidance and other point-to-point navigation requirements using selected grid coordinate system.
NBC Nuclear-Biological-Chemical	This category includes vehicles intended for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and High-Yield Explosives related missions. These may include monitoring, cleanup or similar non-Reconnaissance missions that have a payload of NBC-specific equipment that represents a significant portion of the entire platform. The vehicles are typically significantly modified variants within a family of vehicles, but can also be stand-alone vehicles.
Network Infrastructure	Computers, data storage, displays, wired and wireless links, cell-phones and other handheld devices, software applications, encryption and information assurance that provide fixed infrastructure to C2ISR facilities and databases in the home country and within forward operating bases linked by commercial SATCOM and fiber optic cables. This infrastructure is non-tactical in nature. COTS IT serves this segment and encrypted civilian networks provide the links; the encryption at the device level is often the exception to COTS.
Perimeter Security	Equipment, systems, or services primarily used to prevent prohibited access to areas of interest to HLS-related organizations.
Platform Intercom Systems	Networks internal to the platform that connect devices and their operators inside the platform with each other and with an external network through a network node which is an external communications device.
Platform Simulator	Provides training on the overall operation of aircraft, ships, spacecraft or ground vehicles.
Port Security	Swimmer detection and other military-unique underwater security devices.
Search/Track/Target	Primarily used to specifically sort out object(s) of interest and to determine their geospatial parameters.
Sensor Simulator	Generates simulated sensor data for display and analysis.
Services/Support	Services primarily providing systems engineering, technical assistance, operations management, maintenance, training, sustainment, or scientific and engineering support of military communication systems, military communication systems operators or military communication procurement offices.
Simulator Support	Activities related to maintaining, repairing, and upgrading a simulator to ensure concurrency between the simulator and its related operational platform. This could include modification or hardware and / or software.
Situational Awareness	sensor system that allows the user to observe the meaningful surroundings to a level that enables him to assess threats and nature of activities “near” him. Generally the zone ranges from very near to the maximum range where meaningful threats are likely to exist. Nature of the observed zone depends on the platform and threats.
Software (Intel)	Software designed or utilized to assist the intelligence process, whether for tasking, collection management, exploitation, analysis, or dissemination.
Space Frontiers	Space Systems with a primary purpose of expanding mankind’s knowledge of the extended universe.
Surface Search	These are ship or land based radars that scan the surface of the land or sea. In the sea application the radar searches for multiple objects such as ships, small boats, periscopes, coastal and land based objects. In the land based application the radar is searching for vehicles, personnel, and fixed land based objects. The land based radars are also frequently used for coastal maritime surveillance.
Surveillance/ Reconnaissance	Primarily used to observe, reconnoiter and possibly identify specific objects within areas of interest.
Survey/Oceanography	Vessels that are used to map the ocean floor and perform acoustical, biological, physical and geophysical surveys to provide data that aids our understanding of oceans and the undersea domain.
Tactical/Attack	Sonar systems used to detect, track and engage submarines and surface ships. This category includes the majority of sonars installed on ships or submarines and includes Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) technology.
Tactical Radios and Terminals	Tactical Radios used to cover the majority of two way tactical communications systems, products and devices intended solely for voice communications. The current generations of these radios now have internal modems and are fully compatible with digital data communications. Even the older versions function as terminals in conjunction with external modems and network management. Tactical Terminals are communication systems, products and devices that can be handheld, hosted by specific platforms or in ground facilities, which then, in turn, have some internal communications distribution system for voice, video and/or data streamed in on tactical terminals.
Target	Unmanned aerial device which emulates aircraft and/or missile threats. Targets are used to assess the performance of land, sea, or air based air defense weapon/sensor systems, or in the training of land, sea, or air based air defense forces.
Translation Svc	Translation and interpreter services which can assist in the intelligence collection or exploitation & analysis effort.
Utility	A system designed to serve a variety of intermixed differing roles and which would not normally be justified by performing any one of those roles alone.
VTS/Coastal Surv Radar	Land-based radar used for Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) and/or for coastal/off-shore surveillance.
Warning Receiver	Primarily passive countermeasures systems that provide warning signals related to attacking systems operating in the EO/IR electro-magnetic frequency spectrum.
Weapon Simulator	Used to simulate a weapons system or train operators on the weapons systems of a specific platform. Example: MILES SLM (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement Simulation Shoulder Launched Munitions), Stryker mobile gun system trainer.
Multiple	This category includes any instance when the record involves more than one functional segmentation category.
Other	This category is used when the record cannot be explicitly described by another functional segmentation category.
Research & Technology	Broad based and general technology.
Unidentified R&D	A modeled estimate of R&D Sales not yet identified.

ISR Subsystems

Blended Market Subsystems