Military Situational Awareness

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Overview Military Situational Awareness
By Dr Thomas Withington Last updated: December 4th, 2024

Military situational awareness is essential for allowing armed forces to execute missions and battlefield maneuvers more effectively and efficiently, and a wide variety of different technologies are used to help achieve this. Situational awareness is related to a number of other tactical concepts including ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), GEOINT (geo-intelligence), and SIGINT (signals intelligence).

Tactical Situational Awareness

GRIT - GNSS Resilience and Integrity Technology by Hexagon NovAtel

GRIT – GNSS Resilience and Integrity Technology by Hexagon NovAtel

Situational awareness is the process of observing the environment, perceiving events, understanding the ramifications of these events, and using this information to predict how future events might unfold. Data used for situational awareness includes the whereabouts and numbers of friendly forces and enemy threats, weather information, local terrain, the radio spectrum environment, and more. High-accuracy GNSS positioning data is also essential.

Information for tactical situational awareness can be gathered from a wide variety of sources, including satellite feeds, soldier- and vehicle-mounted cameras and sensors, manned aircraft, and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).

Dismounted Situational Awareness

MANTIS Command-and-Control Software by Forsberg

MANTIS Command-and-Control Software by Forsberg

Situational awareness data can be delivered to soldiers and vehicles in the field via a range of different devices. Rugged mobile phones, laptops and tablets are typically used by infantry for dismounted situational awareness, as well as goggles that feature AR (augmented reality) displays. Vehicle operators and aircraft pilots may also have helmet displays that relay tactical information.

Tactical datalinks are also crucial for situational awareness. These may take the form of radios, cellular devices, or SATCOM (satellite communications), and disseminate audio, recorded or live streaming video, sensor data and other information.

Cybersecurity

Situational awareness is also essential in the cybersecurity domain, as threats from hostile forces employing hackers and other forms of cyber-warfare are always increasing. Solutions for cyber situational awareness include software suites that actively monitor tactical networks, assess vulnerabilities, and provide threat response.

Training

Solutions are also available that provide soldiers and personnel with situational awareness training. These can include tactical wargame and scenario software as well as immersive virtual reality (VR) simulation environments.

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IQNS Mini Edge Processing Unit

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Navigation & autonomy platform for small underwater robots
Greensea IQ's IQNS Mini is a complete GNCC (guidance, navigation, command, and control) platform for...
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XMC mezzanine card with NVIDIA Ampere GPU and 4 video outputs

XMC mezzanine card with NVIDIA Ampere GPU and 4 video outputs
XMC featuring NVIDIA RTX A2000 with 2560 CUDA cores, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, and 4 DP/HDMI/DVI...
VPX3U-AD5000E-CX7 (WOLF-153L)

3U VPX with high performance embedded computing (HPEC) and network connectivity

3U VPX with high performance embedded computing (HPEC) and network connectivity
Features an NVIDIA Ada RTX5000 GPU for HPEC and ConnectX-7 for up to 100GbE and PCIe Gen5 suitable f...
VPX3U-AD5000E-VO (WOLF-1538)

3U VPX module with advanced Ada video processing and 4 video outputs

3U VPX module with advanced Ada video processing and 4 video outputs
Features NVIDIA Ada GPU with 9728 CUDA Cores, 304 Tensor Cores, 4 DP/HDMI/DVI outputs...
VPX3U-A4500E-VO (WOLF-1448)

3U VPX module with advanced Ampere video processing and 4 video outputs

3U VPX module with advanced Ampere video processing and 4 video outputs
Features NVIDIA Ampere GPU with 5888 CUDA Cores, 160 Tensor Cores, and 4 DP/HDMI/DVI Outputs...
VPX6U-AD5000E-DUAL-VO (WOLF-2538)

6U VPX with dual-NVIDIA Ada GPUs for advanced AI & video processing applications

6U VPX with dual-NVIDIA Ada GPUs for advanced AI & video processing applications
Features NVIDIA Ada with 19456 CUDA Cores, 608 Tensor Cores, and up to 8 video outputs...
GRIT – GNSS Resilience and Integrity Technology

Protect your position, navigation and timing (PNT) measurements

Protect your position, navigation and timing (PNT) measurements
...vers to expand situational awareness and interference mitigation tools across applications and... ...reat. Detailed situational awareness is the first step to building resiliency and integrity of a...
AvTrak 6 Nano

Tracking, communications and relocation transceiver

Tracking, communications and relocation transceiver
......f each member of the squad to aid the navigation solution and improve their situational...
Vigilant

Forward Looking Sonar

Forward Looking Sonar
...eir underwater situational awareness and guide an uncrewed system or swimmer delivery vehicle with... ......nvironment surrounding the vessel is built up, providing crews with greater situational...
OPENSIGHT

Cutting-edge multi-domain PED software for enhanced situational awareness

Cutting-edge multi-domain PED software for enhanced situational awareness
...-to-the-minute situational awareness that supports the warfighter during mission-critical... ...... (common operating picture) that significantly enhances situational awareness and...
OPENSIGHT Mission Console

AI-powered augmented reality for aerial payload operators

AI-powered augmented reality for aerial payload operators
...ves geospatial situational awareness by superimposing multiple synthetic information layers. The...
OPENSIGHT Analyst Console

Airborne mission management, planning and debriefing solution

Airborne mission management, planning and debriefing solution
OPENSIGHT Analyst Console is an all-in-one management solution for airborne missions, providing plan...
OPENSIGHT Underwater Optronic Mast Console

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...liver enhanced situational awareness....
UAS-C System

Situational awareness for BVLOS UAV operations

Situational awareness for BVLOS UAV operations
......systems, displaying tracks of both crewed and uncrewed aircraft for maximum situational...
XPC

Mode C Transponder DOD AIMS CERTIFIED

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...... Put the experience of millions of mission hours to work for you to improve situational...

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