Targeting and Precision Engagement

Military operators often encounter fast-paced and unpredictable scenarios, where the ability to quickly respond to emerging threats is critical. BAE Systems offers a range of targeting and precision engagement planning software designed to enhance mission effectiveness and decision making. These solutions enable dynamic target tracking, optimized weapon pairing, and joint fires routing, deconfliction, and execution, allowing military operators to rapidly adapt to changing battlefield conditions.

Using advanced target identification algorithms and machine learning capabilities, our software products provide rigorous and accurate physics-based targeting solutions, minimizing collateral damage and ensuring precise engagement of high priority targets. By integrating machine-learning-based, assistive operator workflows and advanced analytic support to multi-INT fed, common informational picture, into command and control (C2) systems, our targeting and precision engagement solutions support informed decision-making and effective mission execution.

Areas of Expertise:

• Advanced Automated Algorithms – Enhancing targeting capabilities through:

  • Accelerated targeting cycles

  • Improved target detection, tracking, and identification (via automatic target recognition, automatic features extraction, and data fusion)

  • Optimized target decision-making in complex environments

  • Geospatial Intelligence: Utilizing geospatial data and analysis to inform targeting decisions and improve situational awareness 

• Common Information Picture Formation – Developing next-generation analytics, integrated data environments, and targeting workflows to support the entire mission cycle. These advanced capabilities will enable us to effectively find, fix, and track a range of targets, including mobile, fleeting high-value, and deliberate targets, across all mission phases.

• Dynamic Tracking and Targeting – Combining data from multiple, heterogeneous sensors to create a high-fidelity, real-time fused picture of dynamic targets.

• Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms – Spans predictive analytics, behavioral modeling, and target tactics by analyzing past target behavior to predict future actions.

• 4D Computer Vision – The application of physics-based photogrammetry to derive high-accuracy 3D coordinates and actionable intelligence from imagery for precision targeting solutions as a function of time and changing uncertainty.

• Precision Munition Support – Enhanced Targeting and Mission Planning capabilities in the Long-Range Kill Chain (LRKC) for mid- and long-range precision munitions.

• Hypersonic Weapon Support – Mission planning and targeting require a specialized, multi-disciplinary approach. This approach involves the integration of sensor data from space-based, airborne, and ground-based assets to track and engage high-value, time-sensitive, and heavily defended targets operating within contested environments.

• Joint Weapon Planning – Combines strategic guidance, operational design, and technical intelligence to ensure efficient weapon system employment.

• Joint Non-Kinetic Planning – Involves synchronizing non-lethal, often invisible, capabilities into the broader targeting cycle to create dilemmas for adversaries and enhance the lethality of kinetic operations to achieve military objectives.

• International Partnering – Developing targeting software products for both DoW and FMS customers.

• Next generation integrated data and targeting workflows – Developed and deployed across the targeting cycle.