The procurement agreement between General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) calls for the delivery of two SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in 2025. This comes after JCG and GA-ASI continued their Company-Owned, Contractor-Operated SeaGuardian operation contract in April 2022.
“Since the JCG began using SeaGuardians, the system has performed effectively and efficiently for a variety of JCG missions, including supporting search and rescue and disaster response, particularly during the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck early this year near the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture and maritime surveillance during the 2023 G-7 Summit in Hiroshima,” stated Linden Blue, CEO of GA-ASI.
The configuration of SeaGuardian, a medium-altitude, long-endurance RPA system, can allow it to fly for up to 24 hours. In utilizing Optix+, which collects data from SeaGuardian sensors and other sources to provide its operator with a comprehensive picture of surveillance information, GA-ASI has enhanced its Maritime Wide Area Surveillance (MWAS) for Japan. Its real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) information may be easily tasked and directed because to its feature. The Optix+ software suite from GA-ASI quickly correlates and utilizes gathered data to provide a widely shared operating picture. It is possible to automatically discover unusual activities over seas when there is multi-source correlation in the data.
