Low-Altitude Airborne Sensor System (LAASS)

Abstract

The Low-Altitude Airborne Sensor System (LAASS) program is developing an airborne sensor system 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 can significantly increase our ability to seek out underground facilities and map out their vulnerabilities and backbone structure. LAASS technologies are planned to transition to Northern Command, Southern Command, Strategic Command, or Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Document Details

Document Type
Accomplishment
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
4d8e1355d728fcdf8a19bf81b56a9f73

Tags

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Military Science
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.

Technology Areas

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

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