The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded four task order contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies to develop and integrate enhanced operational capabilities for its Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS).

Under the 18-month $17m contract, the company will integrate data streams from enhanced sensors on the Global Hawk and Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) into the DCGS.

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The company will also provide new net-centric situational awareness, radar, moving target indicators, and spectral capabilities for the intelligence community and the war-fighter.

The integration will ensure complete exploitation of data from the UAV sensors to meet critical war-fighter needs.

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