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| Raytheon unveils Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System for Canadian army. | |||
INDIANAPOLIS,
May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Company Raytheon Technical Services
Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), recently
unveiled its Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System
(LRSS) prototype to the Canadian Army in Ottawa, Ontario. |
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 LAV IIIs and a Leopard tank, elements of the India Company (I Coy) Combat Team, move to the form-up point at Forward Operating Base Ma'Sum Ghar for the start of Operation REAR ENTRANCE, a disruptive patrol through the Ashoqah area of the Panjwayi District, Afghanistan. (Copyyright: Canadian Army Combat Camera) |
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| Raytheon designed the LRSS to fit into the Canadian Army's Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV)-III to provide improved flexibility allowing on-the-move intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The innovative design permits the LAV-III to create high-fidelity actionable information at the point of collection inside the vehicle -- and report digital ISR information directly to the base commander. The ability to obtain critical information in real time can improve operator effectiveness and reduce workload. "Raytheon believes that on-the-move reconnaissance and surveillance is a game changer for the Canadian Army," stated Rudolph Lewis, RTSC Depot Support Systems product line director. "This, coupled with the ability to conduct on-board imagery exploitation and to receive auto-cueing information from unmanned aerial vehicles and unattended ground sensors, provides the Canadian Army with unprecedented mission flexibility." The LRSS acts as a "smart node" in the overall Canadian Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance enterprise. It works with off-board sensors from UAVs and unattended ground sensors, in both an LAV-III-mounted configuration or dismounted configuration using tripods. Raytheon has teamed with SRI Sarnoff on the integration of the LRSS for the Canadian Army to provide enhanced 3-D immersive situational awareness and Command, Control, Communication and Computers (C4) ISR. SRI Sarnoff is a technology leader in real-time video processing, manipulation and salient data distribution, even at very low bitrates. "Our real-time video processing products including TerraSight, integrated with the RTSC solution, will provide field-proven C4ISR capabilities built on U.S. Army standards for the Canadian Army's LAV-III Upgrade Project," said Mark Clifton, vice president, Products & Services Division, at SRI Sarnoff. Additionally,
The Will-Burt Company was chosen to supply the on-the-move rated telescopic
mast for the LRSS Integrated Sensor System. |
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