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.