SAN DIEGO & WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2026--
BAE Systems Geospatial eXploitation Products ™ (GXP®) and Vantor, the leading provider of unified spatial intelligence, today announced that they will be providing advanced intelligence and targeting capabilities for contested electronic warfare (EW) environments. This delivery integrates part of Vantor’s Raptor, a vision-based software suite that enables autonomous systems to navigate, orient, and extract accurate ground coordinates without relying on GPS, with the GXP software ecosystem, ensuring intelligence continuity when sensors are degraded.
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In modern conflict zones, the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with equally low-quality sensors, in addition to widespread GPS spoofing and jamming, have rendered traditional drone video collection unreliable. Significant metadata drift in tactical video feeds leads to "targeting paralysis": high-quality imagery is available, but the underlying geographic coordinates are too inaccurate for precision activities.
To solve this, Raptor Sync georegisters the full-motion video feed from the drone’s on-board camera with Vantor’s 3D terrain data in real-time, enabling downstream GXP intelligence fusion, multi-domain interoperability across different sensors, and accurate ground coordinate extraction at a demonstrated absolute accuracy of <3 m. This system enables previously impossible intelligence and targeting workflows.
“In contested environments, the sensor's imagery and video collections are only half the battle; the accuracy of the data it produces is what determines mission success,” said Kurt de Venecia, Sr. Director of Product Development at BAE Systems GXP. “By including Raptor directly into our GXP intelligence workflows, we are providing analysts with the ability to maintain absolute targeting confidence, even when the platform’s systems or inertial sensors lack high absolute accuracy.”
Injecting corrected Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata from Raptor directly into the drone’s video stream at the edge enhances accuracy prior to exploitation in GXP software. This overrides inaccurate telemetry, enabling analysts using GXP solutions to extract weapon-quality coordinates and execute intelligence and targeting missions in real time.
“Analysts cannot afford to lose confidence in where a target actually is,” said Paul Millhouse, Sr. Director Raptor Products at Vantor. “By using Raptor to correct video before it enters the GXP Ecosystem, we’re enhancing the performance of existing and new drone fleets. The result is a more resilient workflow for extracting accurate ground coordinates and maintaining operational tempo.”
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About BAE Systems GXP
Supporting development of the most advanced geospatial intelligence, BAE Systems Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) software enables rapid discovery, exploitation, and dissemination of mission-critical geospatial data. From key military, security, and incident response operations to a variety of commercial development and research initiatives, GXP provides a comprehensive suite of solutions to inform effective decision-making and ensure a safer world. To learn more, visit www.baesystems.com/gxp.
About Vantor
Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence to unlock a more autonomous, interoperable world. We give decision makers and operators the power to build a unified intelligence picture, delivering the clarity they need to navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. We fuse data from our constellation, which includes the most capable imaging satellites on orbit, with real-time sensor feeds from space, air, and ground to create an AI-ready digital twin of Earth. Our spatial intelligence platform automates every part of the cycle—from tasking to collection to production—to update and analyze this foundation at the pace of change. Our products drive deeper mission-critical insights and connect the next generation of autonomous systems across the defense, intelligence, and commercial landscape. To learn more, visit www.vantor.com.
Vantor and BAE Systems GXP are delivering more resilient targeting from drones operating in contested environments.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine senator wanted by the International Criminal Court for an alleged crime against humanity has fled from the Senate, where he sought refuge to evade arrest, officials said Thursday.
Sen. Ronald dela Rosa ’s exit from the heavily guarded Senate came after volleys of gunshots were fired Wednesday night by the building's security personnel during an argument with a government agent, sparking chaos that apparently helped the senator to slip out.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made a late-night TV statement to ask the public to remain calm. A police investigation was underway, including into suspicions that the incident was instigated to provide dela Rosa a cover to escape.
“There is no obstruction of justice,” Senate President Alan Cayetano said of dela Rosa’s escape while in the Senate’s protective custody.
He told a news briefing that he did not see any ICC warrant of arrest against dela Rosa and the senator was free to leave the premises.
Critics, however, said Cayetano and the Senate's security chief should be held responsible for dela Rosa's escape.
Dela Rosa, 64, served as the former national police chief of Rodrigo Duterte, who was president from 2016 to 2022. Duterte was arrested in March last year on a ICC warrant for alleged crimes against humanity in connection with deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he launched and for which he is now facing a trial in The Hague.
A warrant unsealed Monday by the ICC charges dela Rosa with the crime against humanity of murder of “no less than 32 persons” between July 2016 and the end of April 2018, when he led the national police force under Duterte and enforced his bloody crackdowns.
Dela Rosa and Duterte have separately denied authorizing extrajudicial killings although the former president has openly threatened drug suspects with death while he was in office.
Dela Rosa’s legal predicament came as political disputes escalated between the Duterte family and Marcos. Vice President Sara Duterte, the former president’s daughter, has blamed Marcos for what she said was the “kidnapping” of her father and handover to a foreign court.
The disputes reflect the deep divisions that have long plagued the rambunctious Asian democracy.
On Monday, Sara Duterte was impeached by the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Marcos’ allies, over alleged unexplained wealth, misuse of state funds and a public threat to have Marcos, his wife and the House speaker assassinated if she herself was killed in their intensifying conflict.
She has denied any wrongdoing but has refused to answer specific allegations in detail.
The Senate will convene into an impeachment court on Monday at the earliest to prepare for the trial of the vice president, Cayetano said.
Cayetano, a key ally of Rodrigo Duterte, wrested the presidency of the Senate Monday after he got the support of 13 of 24 senators. He gained the majority after dela Rosa, who has been absent for months due to fears of his possible arrest, suddenly showed up in the Senate Monday, arriving in Cayetano’s car.
National Bureau of Investigation agents tried to serve the ICC arrest warrant, but dela Rosa darted toward a narrow stairway into the Senate plenary hall and sought the help of allied senators, who took him into protective custody.
Associated Press journalist Joeal Calupitan contributed to this report.
Senate security run after gunfire was heard along a hallway at the Philippine Senate in Pasay, Philippines, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Philippine Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano, center, speaks to the media during a brief press conference at the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Gerard Carreon)
Police personnel walk behind a cordoned-off area inside the Philippine Senate premises in Pasay City Thursday, May 14, 2026, where gunshots were fired Wednesday in connection with a senator who was issued a warrant of arrest by the International Criminal Court. (AP Photo/Gerard Carreon)
Philippine Senator Ronald dela Rosa speaks to reporters at the Philippine Senate in Pasay, Philippines on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Philippine Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano holds a letter addressed to Lower House Speaker Faustino Dy III, acknowledging the Senate's receipt of the resolution containing the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte, during a media briefing at the Senate in Pasay City on May 14, 2026.(AP Photo/Gerard Carreon)
