ISR Systems and Technology
Future Outlook
The Laboratory operates a mobile signal analysis capability for developing and testing new radio frequency sensing and communication capabilities. The van is equipped with a roof-mounted broadband antenna array and significant data recording and computing hardware for collection and field data analysis-
Increasing national investment is expected for developing and fielding improved systems for irregular and conventional warfare. As next-generation, wide-area, high-resolution sensors proliferate, additional emphasis will be on improved architectures for processing, exploitation, and dissemination. The ISR program is expected to continue to develop automated exploitation techniques and data-mining software tools for single- and multi-source ISR data. The Laboratory anticipates research and development to address difficult target sets for which improved sensing capabilities are needed: individuals in urban areas, targets under foliage, quiet submarines under the sea, and deeply buried facilities.
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There will be increased opportunity for synergy between the ISR Systems and Technology and the Cyber Security mission areas. Many ISR data exploitation techniques for threat network detection, as well as their required high-performance computing technologies, have direct application to cyber security problems such as cyber situational awareness. As the computing capability of smartphones and the wireless networking of laptop computers evolve, the ISR Systems and Technology mission will need to develop advanced capabilities to keep pace with this evolution.
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