Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Near Term
- Develop a multi-INT sensor suite for tactical unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
- Demonstrate a 236 megapixel camera in a tactical UAS size, weight and power envelope
Mid Term
- Develop long life (10 year) smart unattended ground sensors for site protection
- Large area surveillance from tactical sensors across the radio frequency spectrum
Far Term
- Smart Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (PISR) systems that can perform complex on-board processing
- Development of a PISR system with interchangeable sensors that functions as one
Objective
Sensors, analytic and predictive technologies, designed to enhance situational awareness and understanding to enable real-time tactical decision making while lightning the warfighter's load.
Research Challenges and Opportunities
- Automate sensor planning based on commander's information requirements
- Enable wide area and collaborative tactical surveillance sensor suites
- By increasing exploitation tasks per watt, enable sensor onboard processing to move from object detection to situational understanding
- Develop state-of-the-art power efficient sensors and algorithms
Point of Contact
Martin Kruger
martin.kruger1@navy.mil