Tactical ISTAR contract won by Elbit Systems for Asia-Pacific nation
NewsDecember 30, 2015
HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. won a contract to provide an airborne, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) solution to an unnamed Asia-Pacific country.
Work on the three-year contract, which is valued at about $50 million, will be done by Elbit Systems' ISTAR division, which is the prime contractor for this program.
The solution will further develop the customer's existing intelligence and surveillance capabilities, by upgrading already-deployed, long-range electro-optical (EO) cameras and sensors from Elbit Systems, and supplementing them with ELTA Systems Ltd.'s, subsidiary and division of IAI, advanced SAR/GMTI Reconnaissance systems. The solution will also enable operators to perform advanced functions such as mission planning, battlefield management, terrain analysis and simulation modeling -- before and during intelligence-gathering operations.
"There is a growing demand for this sort of solution, and we hope that this project," says Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis.
