L3Harris Unveils Collaborative NATO Partners for Advanced Airborne Surveillance System
L3Harris has unveiled its five partners to compete for the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) initiative, aimed at assisting NATO in replacing its Airborne Warning and Control System by 2035.
The consortium is crafting “system-of-systems” solutions for surveillance and control functionalities across various domains for NATO’s AFSC initiative. These solutions deliver enhanced intelligence and more agile control by allowing sensors and systems to exchange information across air, ground, maritime, or space environments.
The L3Harris group features defense and security electronics trailblazer HENSOLDT (Germany); the globally recognized, technology-driven solutions provider Jacobs (United Kingdom); ground/maritime battle management and command and control frontrunner General Dynamics (Canada & Italy); modeling and simulation synthetic environment authority CAE (Canada); and air command and control (C2), tactical data links, and satellite connectivity solutions from the worldwide communications giant Viasat (United States).
“The L3Harris consortium shares a common vision – focused on the data framework or digital backbone through the procurement and integration of a multi-domain AFSC capability,” stated Charles R. “CR” Davis, Vice President, L3Harris International.
“With cooperation and innovation integral to our mission, the integrated team utilizes the expertise of world-class professionals and leverages extensive experience across all domains,” he added.
The multinational team will evaluate the risks and practicality of potential systems-of-systems to augment the NATO Alliance’s military edge through 2035 and beyond. The L3Harris consortium adopts a distinctive platform-agnostic strategy for NATO’s feasibility assessment, facilitating the delivery of a groundbreaking concept with actionable insights.
L3Harris and its partners presented a High Level Technical Concept (HLTC) analysis to NATO in 2020. The HLTC concentrated on data-centric architecture, all facets of multi-domain surveillance, and control within the full range of benign, permissive, contested, and denied operational environments.
L3Harris Technologies stands as an agile global aerospace and defense technology leader, providing comprehensive solutions catering to customers’ mission-critical requirements. The firm delivers cutting-edge defense and commercial technologies spanning air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace domains.
L3Harris achieves an approximate $18 billion in annual revenue and employs 47,000 staff, servicing clients in over 100 nations.
