Night Vision Technology

Abstract

This PE conducts applied research and investigates core night vision and electronic sensor components and software to improve the Army's capability to operate in all battlefield conditions. Technologies pursued in this PE have the potential to provide the Army with new, or enhanced, capabilities to detect and identify targets farther on the battlefield, operate in obscured conditions, maintain a higher degree of situational understanding (SU), and operate autonomously. Project H95 advances infrared (IR) sensor technologies, investigates sensor materials, designs advanced multi-function lasers for marking, targeting, designation, wind-sensing, and range finding, and develops models and simulations for validating advanced sensor technologies. Project K90 funds Congressional special interest items. Work in this PE is fully coordinated with PE 0602120A (Sensors and Electronic Survivability), PE 0602705A (Electronics and Electronic Devices), PE 0602712A (Countermine Technology), PE 0603606A (Landmine Warfare and Barrier Advanced Technology), PE 0603710A (Night Vision Advanced Technology), and PE 0708045A (End Item Industrial Preparedness Activities). All FY20 adjustments align program financial structure to Army Modernization Priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Futures Command (AFC).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0602709A_2_2040_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FY19 increase related to congressional add of $4 Million FY20 decrease related to Science and Technology financial restructuring
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Combat Vehicles
• Detection
• Detectors
• Electronics
• Engineering
• Focal Plane Arrays
• Focal Planes
• High Resolution
• Information Processing
• Lasers
• Materials
• Night Vision
• Readout Integrated Circuits
• Semiconductors
• Target Recognition
• Three Dimensional
• Two Dimensional

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy
• Directed Energy - Lasers
• Microelectronics