SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
(U)The Sensors Technology program element is budgeted in the Advanced Technology Development Budget Activity because it funds sensor efforts that will improve the accuracy and timeliness of our surveillance and targeting systems for improved battlefield awareness, strike capability and battle damage assessment. (U)The Surveillance and Countermeasures Technology project will exploit recent advances in multispectral target phenomenology, signal processing, low-power high-performance computing and low-cost microelectronics to develop advanced surveillance and targeting systems. Timely surveillance of enemy territory under all weather conditions is critical to providing our forces with tactical information needed to succeed in future wars. Additionally, this project encompasses several advanced technologies related to the development of techniques to counter advanced battlefield threats. (U)The Sensors and Processing Systems project develops and demonstrates advanced sensors, and exploitation technologies. These efforts provide warfighters with situational awareness and precision target identification. The project is driven by four needs: 1) integrating data from multipath sources into consistent situational assessments; 2) providing near-real-time, semi-automatic exploitation of wide-area moderate and high-resolution imagery; 3) obtaining real-time, accurate battle damage assessment; and 4) accomplishing robust, precise identification, precision fire control tracking and engagement of ground targets. (U) The Exploitation Systems project develops algorithms, software, and information processing systems to extract information from massive intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) datasets. In particular, it develops new technologies for detection and discrimination of targets from clutter, classification and fingerprinting of high value targets, localization and tracking over wide areas, and threat network identification and analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 0603767E_3_0400_PB_2011
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2009 Decrease reflects Section 8042 rescission of the FY 2010 Appropriations Act, Omnibus Reprogramming action for the H1N1 vaccine development, SBIR/STTR transfer and internal below threshold reprogramming. FY 2010 Decrease reflects reductions for the Section 8097 Economic Assumption, execution delays and FY 2010 new starts. FY 2011 Not Applicable
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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