NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance System Featured at NATO Warsaw Summit
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Allied Command Operations, Alliance Ground Surveillance Staff Element
Implementation Office showcases the unprecedented NATO owned and operated ISR
Capability at 2016 NATO Summit
WARSAW, Poland, July 8, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Just four years after signing
the contract at the 2012 Chicago NATO Summit, the NATO Alliance Ground
Surveillance (AGS) system will be presented to heads of state and senior NATO
and national officials at the 2016 Warsaw Summit. The AGS operational capability
will enable the Alliance to perform extensive surveillance over wide areas and
provide actionable information on threats to our collective security to NATO and
national officials for timely preparation of diplomatic and military responses.
A video accompanying this release is available at https://youtu.be/reNNm7TgfpU.
The AGS Summit display is the first time the deployable elements of the system
have come together. Both air and ground elements have entered into the formal
test phase of their development process. The aircraft's flight test program is
underway at the Edwards Air Force Test range, California. Preparations are
progressing at the AGS Main Operation Base in Sigonella, Sicily to prepare for
the arrival of the first of the five aircraft later this year. This capability
will become operational in the 2017/2018 timeframe.
"AGS is the first NATO owned-and-operated ground surveillance system, using
state-of-the-art sensors and information knowledge management systems," said
Col. Pedro Renn, NATO AGS Force Commander. "AGS will be available to all
Alliance members and will be a key capability for Alliance strategic
anticipation. The NATO AGS Force will support the NATO Joint Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance initiative, providing indicators and warnings
necessary to ensure that NATO continues to project stability, whilst maintaining
a position of collective defence and deterrence."
Northrop Grumman's AGS industry team includes Airbus Defence and Space, Leonardo
and Kongsberg, as well as leading defense companies from the participating
nations. The AGS system is comprised of five air segment remotely piloted
aircraft designed and developed by Northrop Grumman as well as mobile and
transportable ground stations designed and developed by Airbus and Leonardo.
-- Airbus Defence and Space, a division of Airbus Group is Europe's number
one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business
worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs
more than 38,000 people and in 2015 generated revenues of over 13 billion euros.
-- Leonardo is Italy's leading manufacturer in the high technology sector and
ranks among the top ten global players in aerospace, defence and security.
Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (LDO), in 2015 the company recorded
consolidated revenues of 13 billion euros. Leonardo is a multinational and
multicultural group which boasts a significant presence in three key markets:
Italy, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
-- KONGSBERG is an international, knowledge-based group delivering high
technology systems and solutions to clients within the oil and gas industry,
merchant marine, defence and aerospace. The defence portfolio comprises products
and systems for command and control, weapons guidance and surveillance,
communications solutions and missiles.
"I'm honored that the AGS is being presented by the operational community to the
nations' leaders at the Summit," said Brian Chappel, vice president, autonomous
systems, Northrop Grumman. "As part of the transatlantic industry team we have
had the pleasure to work with for the past four years, Northrop Grumman is truly
proud to witness the transition of the system from the development to the
operational phase. This success could only have been achieved through the
commitment of the entire AGS team partnership - both government and industry -
working across cultures, time zones and languages, leveraging national
capabilities with the goal of providing the Alliance with this critical
capability."
As a fully NATO owned and operated system supported by the 28 Alliance nations,
NATO AGS will be a key enabler of NATO's joint intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance capability. The wide area surveillance Global Hawk unmanned
aircraft and the fixed, mobile and transportable ground stations will support a
full range of NATO missions, including protection of ground troops and civilian
populations, border control and maritime operations, crisis management and
humanitarian assistance in natural disasters. The NATO AGS system is also able
to ingest sensor data from national systems to continuously detect and track
ground moving objects and deliver actionable information to decision makers in
minutes.
"We face an extremely complex threat environment," said Andrew Tyler, chief
executive, Northrop Grumman Europe. "The NATO AGS programme will help address
this and deliver a highly advanced system of systems capability that will
provide a truly transatlantic solution for Alliance collective defence, crisis
management and cooperative security."
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative
systems, products and solutions in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, and
logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide.
Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
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ken.beedle(at)euro.ngc.com
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