Land Tactical C4ISR

Land Tactical C4ISR More Powerful and Ready for Today’s Complex Battlespace

Through more than 20 years of development and combat experience, Leonardo DRS’s industry leading C4ISR integrated platform networking capability has provided commanders and platform operators the ability to easily control and interface with sensors, communications equipment, mission command applications, and navigational devices.

This proven technology has delivered cutting-edge tactical computing and networking solutions to customers around the globe giving them a situational awareness advantage from a workstation in a range of ground combat platforms, fires outposts and command posts.

Today, the Bowman C4ISR system is more powerful than ever with the latest processing systems and a range of upgrades, including A.I. to extend the reach out to the tactical edge. Leonardo DRS has delivered more than 14,000 Bowman units to the United Kingdom’s ground combat forces.  They have relied on its networking system through numerous military campaigns because of the wide range of capabilities that deliver a common picture for users across the battlespace.  From voice, video and data, the devices can be connected across the tactical network with adjacent platforms, remote or mobile command posts, higher headquarters, as well as with coalition partners.

Like the U.S. military’s Mounted Family of Computer System (MFoCS) C4ISR system from Leonardo DRS, Bowman is designed to be agnostic to the network and applications allowing the end users to adopt best-of-breed solutions in terms of communications and data applications such as Blue Force Tracker.

At the heart of this system is Leonardo DRS’s line of ultra-rugged, military-standard qualified hardware and software solutions.  The scalable system also provides new capabilities to integrate various platform C4ISR devices with significant reductions in size, weight, power and cost.

More Powerful and Always Rugged

DRS’ ultra-rugged tactical computers are designed to allow for ongoing technology insertion and upgrades. Over the course of large-scale projects such as Bowman and MFoCS, Leonardo DRS has been able to use the same base infrastructure to deliver ever-increasing amounts of capability as computing, network and security technology advanced. Leonardo DRS’s next generation tactical networking and computing products are now more powerful than ever with Intel multi-core technology, graphical processors, and new interfaces for future expansion to meet emerging needs. The ability to use the current infrastructure and upgrade the current systems is more cost-effective than buying lower-grade commercial off-the-shelf systems and ensures that there is no compromise regarding the environmental performance of the system.

Leonardo DRS’s tactical computing and networking products are the choice of a growing number of demanding end-users. These systems are installed and operational in over 425,000 ground vehicles and command posts with allies across the globe.  These systems are delivering unparalleled performance in terms of reliability, availability and cyber secure resilience. In addition to the U.S. and U.K. installed bases, end-users are in the Middle East and Europe with the Polish Land Force and Romanian Army.  In Southeast Asia, they are in Thailand and Indonesia as well as Australia and Taiwan among others.

Always Evolving to Meet New Threats

As the battlespace becomes more complex, Leonardo DRS’s Land Tactical C4/5i hardware and software architectures are also changing to meet new and emerging requirements. Today, the company has advanced its tactical C4/5i systems by integrating both A.I.-based advanced sensing technologies with network and application-agnostic tactical computing and networking, while adding dismounted soldier situational awareness as a core new capability.

Bringing together our advanced sensing capabilities in areas such as EW, Radar and Electro-Optics with modular tactical, AI based computing is a logical and necessary step in the continuous effort to ensure our customers have the tools to sense and counter an increasing number of asymmetric threats on the battlefield.

A.I. Processors Bring Enhanced Situational Awareness

A.I.-based advanced sensing has the potential to significantly enhance situational awareness, decision making and operational efficiency. In the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance space, Leonardo DRS’s multi-sourced data fusion capability integrates various sensors to provide a comprehensive operational picture improving reaction times and reducing the cognitive load on commanders and crew by providing actionable options associated with a range of systems such as Electronic Countermeasures and Signals intelligence, Counter-IED and Proximity Protection of mobile and fixed sites.

The key technologies supporting these developments include A.I. machine learning processors supporting pattern recognition and anomaly detection aided by deep learning which enhances image and signal recognition greatly improving the accuracy of threat detection and identification.

Looking Ahead

As Leonardo DRS drives towards extending the reach out to the tactical edge, the company will be introducing a new secure dismounted soldier applique capable of running over various secure radios and waveforms and of supporting multiple applications such as Systematic Edge as well as tactical
air control.

The dismounted soldier system will be designed to be integrated with Leonardo DRS’s advanced suite of integrated weapons sights and its next-generation, Blacklab man-portable Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and
Space sensor.

Bowman is built on a long legacy of proven and reliable technology drawn from large programs such as US Army MFoCS that has grown with the ever-changing battlespace.  Tomorrow’s Bowman technology will be more powerful than ever and ready for the challenging and complex threats that face today’s warfighters.

To find out more, visit Leonardo DRS at:

IDEX 2025, Stand # 02-B12, Abu Dhabi, UAE
January 17-21

www.LeonardoDRS.com/platform-computing