The Rheinmetall logo on display during an event at the Berlin ExpoCenter Airport. (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — German defense behemoth Rheinmetall and US imagery provider Vantor announced today that they have inked an agreement on a joint venture to provide “spatial intelligence” to the German military.
The new entity will support Germany’s “sovereign defence requirements” from offices within the country, “as well as existing and emerging European intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) programs,” the press release said.
The plan is to “integrate Vantor’s spatial intelligence platform into Rheinmetall command-and-control systems.” The new system will fuze satellite synthetic aperture radar, electro-optical and infrared imagery from a variety of government and commercial satellites, as well as airborne sensors.
Dan Smoot, Vantor CEO, explained in a statement that the partnership will bring his company’s “Tensorglobe platform into a European-controlled solution that can task, fuse, produce, analyze and deploy spatial intelligence in sovereign environments.
