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 (EW) 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) and infrared (IR) aerospace sensor technologies for a variety of offensive and defensive uses; 3) radio frequency antennas and associated electronics for airborne and space surveillance, together with active and passive electro-optical/infrared sensors; 4) technologies to manage and fuse on-board sensor information for timely, comprehensive situational awareness; 5) technology for affordable, trusted, and reliable, all-weather surveillance, reconnaissance, and precision strike radio frequency sensors and electronic combat systems; and 6) technologies that aid in the development of agile and resilient mission systems. This program has been coordinated through the Department of Defense Science and Technology Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. Funds in this program element may be used to investigate specified technology advancements in air, space and/or cyber domains. This program element may include necessary expenses to support the operation and maintenance of facilities to manage, execute, and deliver science and technology capabilities This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver science and technology capabilities. The use of program funds in this PE would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0601102F, 0602020F, 0602102F, 0602201F, 0602202F, 0602203F, 0602602F, 0602605F, 0602788F, 1206601SF, and 0602298F. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research because this budget activity includes studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts directed toward general military needs with a view toward developing and evaluating the feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions and determining their parameters.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0602204F_2_3600_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: In 2024, funding for Aerospace Sensors (PE 0602204F) increased to emphasize science and technology investments necessary to maintain superiority over potential near-peer adversaries in key technology areas including communication, navigation, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, multi-domain/multi-dimensional sensor systems, and multi-source data collaboration.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Defense Systems
• Detection
• Detectors
• Digital Engineering
• Electronic Warfare
• Electronically Scanned Array
• Optical Detection
• Passive Radar
• Radio Frequency
• Radio Frequency Detectors
• Sensor Networks
• Target Recognition
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Cyber - Quantum
• Microelectronics
• Space
• Space - Space Objects