Guardrail Ground Baseline
The U.S. Army’s Guardrail airborne battlefield surveillance system requires a mobile and agile ground base system that is capable of supporting rapid deployment. In the past, this system has been highly effective. But with four different baseline configurations and no single hardware and software baseline, there were opportunities for significant improvements.
Since 1971, Northrop Grumman has been the Army’s prime contractor and systems integrator for Guardrail. The company is now implementing Guardrail Ground Baseline (GGB) to enhance the current system and to ensure that Guardrail capabilities are supported during the transition to the next-generation Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A).