Rheinmetall, Vantor plan joint ISR venture for Bundeswehr

(Theresa Hitchens – Breaking Defense) 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. – Rheinmetall, Vantor plan joint ISR venture for Bundeswehr – Breaking Defense