TITAN Industry Day Brings Stakeholders Together

Photo By Staff Sgt. Christina Westover | Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team out of Vicenza, Italy, observe an impact zone from a forward observation point during Dynamic Front 2019 in Torun, Poland, Mar. 5. Exercise Dynamic Front 19 is a multinational exercise conducted by the U.S. Army in Europe designed to improve allied and partner nation ability to deliver long-range fires capabilities. This is the first time that Dynamic Front has been executed in Poland, with approximately 500 troops participating in this field exercise. The exercise provides an intense, realistic training environment that takes advantage of U.S. Army Europe’s unique training resources to seamlessly coordinate fires in support of U.S. and allied operations. There are approximately 3,200 participants in this exercise across Europe with over 100 artillery systems from participating countries. The exercise is designed to increase readiness and interoperability by exercising allied and partner nation ability to integrate joint fires in a multinational environment at both the operational and tactical levels. (U.S. Army photo by: Spc. Christina Westover)  

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES

03.13.2020

Courtesy Story

Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors

by Larry Glidewell

Col. Thomas Nguyen, Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) welcomed more than 600 members from industry, government and academia who participated “virtually” in the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) Industry Day March 13. Although the event was originally scheduled to be held on-site at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, it became a virtual event due to the ongoing concerns around the COVID-19 outbreak.

The event provided vendors an overview of the acquisition strategy and projected contractual opportunities for TITAN that will lead to the development of the Army’s newest modernization effort.

The next generation intelligence ground station will provide real time targeting data to support Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) efforts. The system will make use of leading-edge space and high altitude, aerial, and terrestrial layer sensors to deliver targetable data directly to Army fires networks.

Nguyen said, “The new capabilities being offered to the operational commanders are unique and truly game changers”

TITAN will provide commanders the ability to receive multi-discipline intelligence support for targeting and deliver situational awareness (SA) and situational understanding (SU) to mission command. The use of deep-sensing data will provide the ability to fight with accurate long-range precision strike options.

When asked how the system will be built to support different echelons, Lt Col Matthew Paul, Product Manager currently responsible for TITAN, said, “TITAN will be built in an open, modular, scalable configuration, tailorable to the user mission requirements operating at Brigade, Division and Corps echelons and will include a Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) design, which allows each configuration to be scalable as well.”

As for the event being a virtual industry day, Nguyen said, “We wanted to minimize COVID-19 disruptions to our schedule and feel that the virtual industry day provided our participants a tremendous opportunity and solid overview of the TITAN acquisition strategy that they can start planning from.”

The first TITAN prototypes are expected to be deployed for evaluation in 2022.

• Date Taken: 03.13.2020
• Date Posted: 03.30.2020 11:07
• Story ID: 366158
• Location: ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND, US