Aerospace Sensors

Abstract

This program develops the technology base for Air Force aerospace sensors and electronic combat. Advances in aerospace sensors are required to increase combat effectiveness by providing anytime, anywhere surveillance, reconnaissance, precision targeting, and electronic warfare capabilities. To achieve this progress, this program pursues simultaneous advances in: 1) generating, controlling, receiving, and processing electronic and photonic signals for radio frequency (RF) sensor aerospace applications; 2) electro-optical (EO) aerospace sensor technologies for a variety of offensive and defensive uses; 3) RF antennas and associated electronics for airborne and space surveillance, together with active and passive EO sensors; 4) technologies to manage and fuse on-board sensor information for timely, comprehensive situational awareness; and 5) technology for reliable, all-weather surveillance, reconnaissance, and precision strike RF sensors and electronic combat systems. This program has been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research, since it develops and determines the technical feasibility and military utility of evolutionary and revolutionary sensor, electronics, and electronic combat technologies.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0602204F_2_3600_PB_2014
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in FY 2014 is due to higher DoD priorities. Reprogrammed for specific projects in accordance with Section 219 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, as amended by Section 2801 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2010.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Electronic Warfare
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Defense Systems
• Detection
• Detectors
• Electronic Warfare
• Infrared Detectors
• Optical Detection
• Radar
• Radio Frequency
• Radio Frequency Detectors
• Sensor Networks
• Situational Awareness
• Target Detection
• Target Recognition
• Target Signatures
• Three Dimensional
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
• Space
• Space - Space Objects