Authored by: IDE

Role in PROTEAS project: IDE fulfils the roles of both Project and Technical Coordinator. In addition, IDE is further responsible for the study, design and delivery of several PROTEAS SOFCP (Command Post) components.

This article focuses on the Intelligence platform – namely the integration of the IMINT, GEOINT, OSINT, CYBERINT, METOC, SIGINT, HVT/HVI, PIPE4AI, ARTEMIS.IA and ALLINT components- a development effort which is led by IDE, with the contribution of PROTEAS partners ATHEA, LEONARDO (LDO), UBITECH, 8BELLS and RHEINMETALL (RME).

Modern warfare is characterized by complexity and chaos. Special Operations officers need to process tactical information at unprecedented rates. The PROTEAS Intelligence Platform has been designed to automatically collect, visualize, and validate intelligence artifacts, enabling officers to analyze, interpret, and ultimately decide. The software architecture of the PROTEAS Intelligence Platform is naturally organized according to well-established intelligence disciplines. Its purpose and functionality can be understood by examining its contributions to each discipline, as follows.

Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) – IDE

Imagery Intelligence is the collection and analysis of visual data from sources like satellites or unmanned assets, to gather strategic, tactical, and operational information. As a subsystem of the PROTEAS Intelligence Platform, IMINT implements real-time Autonomous Target Recognition and Tracking (ATRNT). The algorithm runs on-board Edge devices (such as the NVIDIA Jetson), across a networked fleet of aerial, surface and ground unmanned platforms. These assets transmit image data to a Ground Station for multi-sensor data fusion. Telemetry from the unmanned platforms is encrypted along with the collected visual data, according to the STANAG 4609, a Digital Motion Imagery Standard. This allows post processing services at the Ground Station, to synchronously parse video and other IMINT metadata, for real-time fusion with other subsystems.

Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) – IDE

Geospatial Intelligence is defined as the analysis and exploitation of imagery and geospatial data (such as maps, satellite data, and GNSS/GPS) to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and activities on Earth. The PROTEAS GEOINT subsystem facilitates this process in its entirety. It geolocates image artifacts collected by the Image Intelligence subsystem and outputs their precise locations, in real time. It leverages data from open-source maps, military maps, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to provide officers with a comprehensive and dynamic picture of the Area of Operations. Most importantly, GEOINT employs artificial intelligence to generate heatmaps and costmaps that are dynamically adjusted for each new mission. Based on these costmaps, it produces autonomous path-planning solutions for vehicles, unmanned platforms, and ground troops.

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) – LDO

To increase the mission success within a specific Area of Operations, the PROTEAS Intelligence Platform integrates OSINT capabilities to provide real-time situational awareness. By monitoring publicly available data, including geopolitical shifts, local news, and infrastructural intelligence, the system identifies external variables that could impact operational security. This intelligence is depicted on the SOFCP/ASC (All Sources Centre), where the officers can visualize aggregated data via the Human-Machine Interface (HMI). The OSINT module delivers a fused feed of textual reports and multimedia content, ensuring that decision-makers remain informed of the evolving socio-political landscape surrounding the mission.

Cyber Intelligence (CYBERINT) – LDO

To ensure the integrity of the computing infrastructure across the entire Area of Operations, the PROTEAS Intelligence Platform incorporates a robust CYBERINT framework, designed for high-level safeguarding. The system utilizes a localized database of threat signatures, keeping a history record of classified threat actors and malicious events. It proactively identifies and mitigates potential cyber-attacks, in real-time, and ensures that mission-critical data remains uncompromised, while the system maintains high operational availability.

Meteorological and Oceanographic Intelligence (METOC) – 8BELLS

METOC enables the exploitation of environmental data to support strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making. As a subsystem of the PROTEAS Intelligence Platform, the METOC capability applies AI-based predictive analysis to multi-parameter environmental information (e.g., temperature, wind, humidity, pressure, sea state, and precipitation), transforming it into targeted forecasts and decision-support products. The METOC subsystem can be swiftly configured based on user-defined spatial and temporal criteria. METOC is explicitly designed for interoperability and scalability, as it involves processing and transferring large amounts of data. 

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) – IDE

Today’s electromagnetic environments are complex and often contested. Detecting and identifying targets (e.g. Vehicles, unmanned systems, and more) is increasingly challenging due to signal interference, jamming, and spectrum congestion. Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) rises to this challenge by transforming the electromagnetic spectrum into actionable operational insight. By employing AI-driven RF detection, anomaly identification, and angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation, SIGINT can detect emitters, identify jammers, and locate threats in real time. Through the analysis of spectral and temporal patterns, it enables rapid threat characterization and informed decision-making. At the core of PROTEAS SIGINT capabilities lies the AI framework, which learns discriminative RF fingerprints from spectrogram representations of RF signals. A key asset supporting this framework is an in-house RF fingerprint dataset, combining controlled indoor recordings, with outdoor captures under realistic interference conditions.

High Value Target/High Value Individual (HVT/HVI) – RME

HVT/HVI assessment is achieved via a hierarchical fusion of IMINT outputs concerning the target or individual of interest, validated with structured OSINT analysis. The strength of this approach lies in its fusion logic: IMINT provides concrete, often time-sensitive observational data, while structured OSINT adds contextual validation and broader situational understanding. The process seeks to reduce false positives, bias or misidentification.

PIPE4AI – UBITECH

Benchmarking of algorithms is performed during subsystem training and testing to evaluate accuracy, robustness, and computational efficiency, under controlled conditions. These benchmarks establish baseline performance metrics and enable comparative assessment across model variants and datasets. In parallel, overall fusion performance is measured at the system level, to assess how effectively individual subsystems integrate and contribute to end-to-end outcomes. The results of these assessments are used to optimize performance and guide design decisions in alignment with the PIPE4AI framework, ensuring consistent, scalable, and reliable results.

ARTEMIS.IA – ATHEA

ARTEMIS provides a centralized platform for data storage and retrieval, incorporating robust user access and control mechanisms. The platform follows a modular, extensible design that supports efficient structured data ingestion, and access across multiple user roles. It also provides scalability across deployments, and seamless integration with internal/external systems ensuring data integrity, security, and operational reliability.   

All-Source Intelligence (ALLINT) – IDE

ALLINT enables the fusion of intelligence from all available sources/components to provide a coherent, timely, and actionable operational picture. As the highest-level subsystem of the PROTEAS Intelligence Platform, the ALLINT capability aggregates and correlates data produced by all other intelligence disciplines, applying AI-driven fusion and analytics to resolve inconsistencies, identify patterns, and re-assess confidence levels. In addition, ALLINT is the only discipline that supports the dissemination phase of the intelligence cycle, by generating AI-produced report items, tailored to mission requirements and command levels. A large portion of the Human Machine Interface contains visualized data that stem from ALLINT’s post-processing capabilities. Officers can accelerate their insights and decision-making, using solely this subsystem. However, outputs from all other disciplines are available to the officers should they wish to visualize or delve deeper into them.

A modern Special Operations Forces Command Post needs to be safe and secure. It also needs to be smart. Without the Intelligence Platform, missions would be slower, more dangerous, and less effective. The intelligence platform offers the knowledge and insight that is critical for success in today’s military operations.

About INTRACOM DEFENSE S.A.: 

INTRACOM DEFENSE (IDE) is a highly acclaimed Defense Systems Company in Greece with an outstanding record of participation in domestic programs and exports to quality-driven international customers. The company utilizes high-end technologies in the design and development of advanced products in the areas of Missile Electronics, Tactical IP Communications, C4I Systems, Surveillance, Hybrid Electric Power Systems, and Unmanned Systems.

Moreover, IDE invests an important percentage of its annual turnover in new technologies and participates in joint multinational R&D and production programs, in cooperation with major international defense system companies. The company retains its international recognition through the long standing participation in European and NATO new technology development programs.

Utilizing advanced production capabilities, highly-skilled and experienced personnel and large-scale project management know-how, IDE is a key player in the high technology sector of the Hellenic Defense Industry. Through its participation in domestic and international defense programs, IDE has achieved high levels of local added value and supports the Hellenic industrial sector by allocating considerable contracts to local subcontractors.

 

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