UK C-UAS company MARSS and the Nigerian Ministry of Defence have signed a USD190 million plus deal to deliver, with local partners, Nigeria’s first fully integrated national defence architecture. Under the agreement, MARSS will deliver its NiDAR AI-powered C4I solution along with a training, spares and support programme. A new national command centre will also be commissioned, featuring a training centre to deliver ongoing training for Nigerian operators.
“This programme will see MARSS working with its local partners to build sovereign capability, create a critical multi-domain defence architecture, and support the national security agencies in counter-terrorism operations,” according to a company press release. “The programme marks a significant commitment to one of the first national-scale adoptions of AI-enabled C4I in Africa. The programme scope includes a fleet of expeditionary platforms, equipped with a mixture of sensors and effectors meshed by MARSS’ ground-breaking NiDAR C4I system; unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles (UAVs), integrated into NiDAR via MARSS’ Autonomous Mission Management (AMM), enabling intelligent aerial reconnaissance in hostile and contested areas where it is unsafe to deploy ground resources; and new regional command centres and a national headquarters, networked to receive live sensor data from fixed legacy systems and the fleet of expeditionary platforms and UAVs, fused together by MARSS’ NiDAR Nation Shield, Edge to Mission Command (E2MC) capabilities – delivering an integrated multi-domain air and land surveillance picture.
This new programme will take advantage of two of NiDAR’s latest capability upgrades: NiDAR Nation Shield, with its E2MC capabilities, enables those in expeditionary vehicles, piloting UAVs, or in regional and national hubs to work from the same single operational picture, allowing for faster and more accurate decision-making at tactical, operational, and strategic levels and NiDAR AMM which enables operators to autonomously task, and deploy uncrewed assets across air, land, and sea domains, transforming UAVs, UGVs, and USVs into intelligent autonomous sensor and effector platforms within the wider defence ecosystem.
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