Counterdrug RDT&E Projects

Abstract

The Counterdrug RDTE Projects Program mission is to develop and deploy technology that disrupts, deters, and denies the flow of drugs, people, information, money and weapons related to narcoterrorism. The Research of Frequency Selective Surfaces and Thermal Signatures project is a Congressional plus up. Micro antenna-array technology will be developed to enhance, camouflage, or conceal the infrared (IR) signatures of controlled assets. The overall project objective is to investigate the utility of frequency selective surfaces (FSS) and thin-film materials as tags that can be viewed using airborne or national sensors. Arrays of infrared micro antennas will be applied to the exterior surface of a controlled item to alter the object's emission in the portion of the IR band commonly used by thermal imagers. The micro antenna array will be tailored to control the emitted infrared spectral pattern in order to disguise, conceal, or tag the asset of interest. The tag could also be remotely monitored using available thermal imaging technology. Key features include the ability to discriminate friend-from-foe and the tailoring of the thermal profile to enhance long-distance stand-off monitoring. The Volume Point Sensors project is a Congressional plus up. It is to demonstrate, based on recent research, that the existing or legacy electrical power lines can be used to charge and maintain all plug-in Chemical Biological Nuclear (CBN) point sensors as well as send sensor data and communications to in-line hubs, with out multiplexing coding and switching infrastructure cost. This system will provide the Ability to detect counter drug ops and transmit information over power lines and power grids.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0603889N_4_1319_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable. FY11 from previous President's Budget is shown as zero because no FY11-15 data was presented in President's Budget 2010.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Counter WMD
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Antenna Arrays
• Antennas
• Arrays
• Camouflage
• Drug Trafficking
• Electrical Grids
• Films
• Frequency
• Load Monitoring
• Materials
• Procurement
• Prototypes
• Test And Evaluation
• Thin Films

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Radio communications and signal processing.
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.