Low-Altitude Airborne Sensor System (LAASS)

Abstract

The Low-Altitude Airborne Sensor System (LAASS) program developed airborne sensing capabilities to find and characterize underground facilities (UGFs) used to shield and protect strategic and tactical activities. This includes command and control, weapons storage, manufacture of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and tunnel networks that breach secure borders and perimeters. By passively capturing emissions associated with underground facility presence and operations, and doing so using airborne sensors (acoustic, electromagnetic, gravity gradiometry), LAASS significantly increased our ability to seek out underground facilities and map out their vulnerabilities and backbone structure. LAASS technologies have been made available to Northern Command, Southern Command, Strategic Command, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency for transition.

Document Details

Document Type
Accomplishment
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
3604cf0896a761673068e1eb414f66a0

Tags

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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