Sensors, Communications, and Electronics Consortium (SCEC)
Our Mission
The Sensors, Communications and Electronics Consortium (SCEC) was created to conduct research, development, and testing in cooperation with the Government, leading to technology demonstrations and prototype projects in the sensors, communications and electronics sciences and other related fields to maintain and improve warfighter command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in complex environments.
Our Mission
The Sensors, Communications and Electronics Consortium (SCE Consortium) was created to conduct research, development, and testing in cooperation with the Government, leading to technology demonstrations and prototype projects in the sensors, communications and electronics sciences and other related fields to maintain and improve warfighter command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in complex environments.
Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)
Soldiers conduct missions in austere and complex environments where GPS is not always available or accurate – whether that be from the challenges of geographical terrain and urban settings or adversarial efforts to deny and disrupt situational awareness. To accurately execute unified action, Soldiers need to know where they and their comrades are located, where they are going, and when to strike.
Assured PNT, a system-of-systems approach, provides Soldiers with integrated solutions to obtain trusted PNT information while operating in conditions with potentially limited, impeded or denied GPS. Assured PNT solutions enable Soldiers to leverage information critical to complex combat operations, increase platform/Soldier protection, maintain or acquire signals in challenged environments, improve situational awareness, and synchronize advanced weapon systems and tactics seamlessly for unified execution of the mission. Army Futures Command, Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center’s versatile solutions enable continuous navigation and total situational awareness for the mounted/dismounted Soldier and commander in varying conditions, including GPS- challenged or degraded environments.
Mine, IED, and Minefield Detection and Defeat
The Defense Department predicts the threat from explosive hazards is likely to remain high in the coming decade, as abilities to counter them continue to evolve. CCDC C5ISR Center identifies, investigates, develops, matures, evaluates and demonstrates technology and system-level prototypes for the U.S. Army that are used in the detection and neutralization (including electronic countermeasures) of explosive hazards that include improvised explosive devices, and mines, whether employed individually or in minefields, buried underground, camouflaged or laying on the ground’s surface.
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting
The spectrum of threats encountered by U.S. Soldiers is varied and complex. Degraded visual environments, demanding weather conditions, urban environments and adversary asymmetric warfare strategies are serious risks to Soldiers’ safety and mission execution.
ISR&T technologies provide actionable information that enables Soldiers to be aware of their surroundings and to perform their duties more safely and with increased effectiveness.This operational insight provides tactical and strategic alternatives for mission success and mitigates the risk of surprise attacks. CCDC C5ISR CENTER provides advanced collection capabilities with the flexibility to address changes in the operational environment and signatures of interest to develop the situation through action by acquiring precise and timely information. CCDC C5ISR Center evaluates new technology in partnership with important Defense Department stakeholders and other agencies in support of the development of advanced intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting prototype systems, concepts, techniques and methodologies that address the asymmetric threat facing today’s Soldier. CCDC C5ISR Center focuses on contributing to the Army’s ISR&T mission by providing the research and development to enhance sensor, tactical augmented reality, laser, radar, signals intelligence, and position, navigation and timing systems.
Tactical and Deployed Power
Cyberspace Operations
Electronic Warfare
Intelligence, Analysis, Exploitation and Dissemination
Mission Command
