Broad Area Surveillance Sensors
Abstract
The Broad Area Surveillance Sensors project develops wide area motion imagery (WAMI) capabilities in support of Combatant Commands’ requirements for end-to-end persistent surveillance to provide airborne sensor suites, data links, and associated ground support elements for city-sized and similar WAMI surveillance capabilities on manned and unmanned aircraft. This project has been aligned to respond to COCOM's greater need for broad area surveillance in current operations and congressional guidance. The restructure delivers more Quick Reaction Capabilities (QRC) in the near term while allowing time for the services to incorporate lessons learned from previously initiated QRC activities into a future program of record. Continued development of critical broad area surveillance technologies will feed existing QRCs supporting various aircraft size, weight, and power configurations; sensor performance attributes; Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) architectures, and operational missions. Pre-program planning activities will continue while incorporating QRC lessons learned into a normalized acquisition program. The proposed funding profile shown here reflects this strategy. Activities also include studies, analysis, and technology development, maturation, and demonstration to support current and future program planning and execution. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 675382_0305206F_7_3600_PB_2013
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