| COST ($ In Thousands) | FY 1995 Actual | FY 1996 Estimate | FY 1997 Estimate | FY 1998 Estimate | FY 1999 Estimate | FY 2000 Estimate | FY 2001 Estimate | Cost to Complete | Total Cost | |
| Total Program Element (PE) Cost | 26,329 | 30,577 | 28,691 | 29,944 | 31,753 | 31,818 | 33,390 | Continuing | Continuing | |
| 665A | Airborne Sensors Technology | 14,833 | 13,826 | 11,833 | 13,243 | 14,047 | 14,079 | 14,776 | Continuing | Continuing |
| 69CK | Advanced Electronics | 3,501 | 3,363 | 3,515 | 3,414 | 3,613 | 3,614 | 3,790 | Continuing | Continuing |
| 69DF | Target Attack and Recognition Technology | 7,995 | 13,388 | 13,343 | 13,287 | 14,093 | 14,125 | 14,824 | Continuing | Continuing |
(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification : This Advanced Technology Development program provides technology to enable continued avionics superiority. Military force structures must contain combat aircraft that can defeat increasingly sophisticated active and passive countermeasures, destroy a wide variety of targets with precision, and reliably perform complex missions with less logistics support in a world of proliferating threats. This program responds to these needs by developing and demonstrating technologies and techniques for advanced radio frequency sensors (i.e., radar) and active and passive electro-optical sensors for airborne and ground targeting including: electronic counter-countermeasures; advanced electronics technologies for improvements in cost, weight, and reliability; and fire control/weapon delivery; target identification and recognition technologies; and techniques for precision air and ground target kills. Emphasis is on detecting, locating, and targeting airborne fixed and mobile time-critical ground threat targets and providing the capability to adapt to changes in target signatures and background environments. These advanced avionics capabilities will provide for flexible, multi-function/multi-mission combat aircraft that can safely penetrate threat areas, destroy multiple ground targets per pass, perform air combat with positive, beyond visual range detection and identification within a complex mix of look-alike friendly, neutral, and enemy aircraft, and return to fight again.
(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands) :
| FY 1995 | FY 1996 | FY 1997 | Total
Cost | |
| (U) Previous President's Budget | 27,983 | 32,131 | 31,013 | Cont |
| (U) Appropriated Value | 28,500 | 32,131 | ||
| (U) Adjustments to Appropriated Value | ||||
| a. Congressional/General Reductions | -1,285 | -636 | ||
| b. SBIR | -531 | -616 | ||
| c. Omnibus/Other Above Threshold Reprogrammings | -302 | -302 | ||
| c. Below Threshold Reprogrammings | -53 | |||
| (U) Current Budget Submit | 26,329 | 30,577 | 28,691 | Cont |
(U) Change Summary Explanation:
Funding: Vertical/horizontal changes to this Program Element since the previous President's Budget are due budget contraints and priorities within the Science and Technology (S&T) Program.
Schedule: Not Applicable.
Technical: Not Applicable.
(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary : Not Applicable.
(U) D. Schedule Profile : Not Applicable.
(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification : Develops and demonstrates advanced technologies to provide for attack management, fire control, and target identification and recognition capabilities. The objective of this project includes developing and demonstrating integrated fire control techniques to provide for a capability of adverse-weather air-to-surface precision strike against multiple targets-per-pass and air-to-air engagement at maximum weapon launch range with cooperative launch deployment flexibility. Specific fire control technologies include attack management, sensor fusion, automated decision aids, advanced tracking for low radar cross section threats, and targeting using both on-board and off-board sensor information. These fire control developments will provide force multiplication and a reduction of exposure to hostile fire. The objective of this project also includes developing and demonstrating technologies to provide for positive, high confidence cueing, recognition, and identification of both airborne and ground-based, high-value, time-critical targets at ranges compatible with tactical air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons in bad weather, day or night, and in high-threat multiple target battle areas. Model-based vision algorithms and target signature development techniques are key to the identification and recognition solution and are pursed in this project in partnership with the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The techniques developed are evaluated to support the Theater Missile Defense efforts in surveillance and attack. The fire control and recognition technologies developed and demonstrated in this project are high leverage in that they provide for significant advancements in operational capabilities largely through software improvements which can be readily transitioned to new and existing systems.
(U) FY 1995 ($ in Thousands):
| (U) $1,283 | Develop synthetic signature capability for ground targets to train automatic target recognition algorithms. |
| (U) Baselined synthetic signature validation methodology using tactical targets. | |
| (U) Developed first set of target signatures for incorporation into ground-based target recognition systems. | |
| (U) $2,139 | Evaluate automatic target recognition algorithms, including model-based vision algorithms, for moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition, for consideration of Theater Missile Defense surveillance and attack efforts. |
| (U) Evaluated automatic radar air-to-ground target acquisition algorithms using measured and synthetic signature data. | |
| (U) $1,414 | Develop advanced hostile target identification technologies to provide a capability for beyond visual range, all aspect, high confidence classification and identification of airborne targets. |
| (U) Evaluated synthetic airborne target signatures with sufficient fidelity to support hostile target identification program. | |
| (U) $252 | Develop advanced air-to-air engagement and weapon delivery technologies to provide for beyond visual range detection, targeting, and weapon deployment against sophisticated and reduced observable airborne threats. |
| (U) Completed concept evaluation for cooperative air-to-air engagement techniques. | |
| (U) $113 | Develop advanced information fusion technologies to increase air engagement situation awareness and lethality through: longer range, high confidence identification; integration of offensive and defensive sensor technology; and exploitation of off-board targeting information. |
| (U) Completed architecture design and multispectral radar signal fusion algorithm development to increase confidence and opportunity for identification of airborne threats. | |
| (U) $217 | Develop advanced tracking algorithms to increase detection range of conventional threats and maintain detection range against low cross section threats. This effort will also increase identification range of airborne threats. |
| (U) Demonstrated tracking algorithm in roof-top test to validate laboratory results of greater than 50% increase in target detection range. | |
| (U) $1,163 | Develop technologies for targeting both stationary and moving ground-based threats with precision, utilizing both on-board and off-board targeting information. These technologies provide the targeting solution required to deploy air-to-surface weapons. |
| (U) Used flight data from an F-15 aircraft to evaluate potential to target ground-based threats using off-board sources. | |
| (U) Evaluated through in-laboratory simulation the ability to target in real-time using off-board information. | |
| (U) $1,414 | Develop the technology for an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile. |
| (U) Evaluated potential for Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile to aid in the lethal destruction and suppression of enemy defenses. | |
| (U) $7,995 | Total |
(U) FY 1996 ($ in Thousands):
| (U) $2,746 | Develop synthetic signature capability for ground targets to train automatic target recognition algorithms. |
| (U) Develop and perform initial demonstration of camouflage and obscuration models for partially hidden targets. | |
| (U) Demonstrate target models for use in training of automatic target recognition algorithms. | |
| (U) $2,129 | Evaluate automatic target recognition algorithms including model-based vision algorithms for moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition and for Theater Missile Defense surveillance and attack efforts. |
| (U) Evaluate automatic target recognition algorithms, including moving and stationary target acquisition algorithms, using synthetic and measured data to assess maturity. | |
| (U) $1,427 | Develop advanced hostile target identification technologies to provide a capability for beyond visual range, all aspect, high confidence classification, and identification of airborne targets. |
| (U) Demonstrate turnkey synthetic signature generation capability to support hostile target identification program. | |
| (U) $2,450 | Develop advanced air-to-air engagement and weapon delivery technologies to provide a capability of beyond visual range detection, targeting, and weapon deployment against sophisticated and reduced observable airborne threats. |
| (U) Complete critical design for cooperative engagement system for fighter weapon systems. | |
| (U) Conduct simulation and ground experiments of cooperative engagement and improved tracking accuracy for air-to-air weapons. | |
| (U) $587 | Develop advanced information fusion technologies to increase air engagement situation awareness and lethality through: longer-range, high confidence identification; integration of offensive and defensive sensor technology; and exploitation of off-board targeting information. |
| (U) Integrate model-based vision algorithms into laboratory test environment to verify operational payoff. | |
| (U) Evaluate advanced, multispectral radar fusion, model-based vision algorithms. | |
| (U) $1,599 | Develop advanced tracking algorithms to increase detection range of conventional threats and maintain detection range against low cross section threats. This effort will also increase identification range of airborne threats. |
| (U) Integrate advanced tracking system into airborne data collection device. | |
| (U) Collect airborne data and evaluate increase in identification range of advanced tracking algorithms compared to existing tracking systems. | |
| (U) $2,450 | Develop technologies for targeting both moving and stationary ground-based targets utilizing both on-board and off-board targeting information. These technologies provide the targeting solution required to deploy air-to-surface weapons. |
| (U) Complete evaluation of real-time, off-board targeting solutions in support of precision synthetic aperture radar weapon systems. | |
| (U) Evaluate off-board targeting schemes for real-time information in the cockpit study using laboratory and airborne data. | |
| (U) $13,388 | Total |
(U) FY 1997 ($ in Thousands):
| (U) $2,944 | Develop synthetic signature capability for ground targets to train automatic target recognition algorithms. |
| (U) Demonstrate capability to rapidly insert synthetic signatures of new targets into automatic target recognition sensor algorithms. | |
| (U) Evaluate tactical target models under camouflage and partial obscuration conditions. | |
| (U) $2,001 | Evaluate algorithms including model-based vision algorithms for moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition and for Theater Missile Defense surveillance and attack efforts. |
| (U) Demonstrate and evaluate maturity of end-to-end algorithms, including moving and stationary target acquisition, for insertion into Theater Missile Defense demonstration efforts. | |
| (U) $1,448 | Develop advanced hostile target identification technologies to provide a capability for beyond visual range, all aspect, high confidence classification and identification of airborne targets. |
| (U) Continue to demonstrate synthetic signature generation capability to support fielded automatic target recognition systems. | |
| (U) $289 | Develop advanced air-to-air engagement and weapon delivery technologies to provide for a beyond visual range detection, targeting, and weapon deployment capability against sophisticated and reduced observable airborne threats. |
| (U) Develop cooperative engagement subsystem technology for fighter weapon systems. | |
| (U) Evaluate cooperative engagement and tracking accuracy development for air-to-air weapon deployment through continued simulation and ground-based experiments. | |
| (U) $603 | Develop advanced information fusion technologies to increase air engagement situation awareness and lethality through: longer-range, high confidence identification; integration of offensive and defensive sensor technology; and exploitation of off-board targeting information. |
| (U) Complete ground-to-air testing at the Radar Test Facility of multispectral radar signal fusion techniques. | |
| (U) Integrate multispectral radar signal fusion into airborne data collection system. | |
| (U) Collect airborne data and analyze multispectral radar signature fusion technologies. | |
| (U) $2,736 | Develop advanced tracking algorithms to increase detection range of conventional threats and maintain detection range against low cross section threats. This effort will also increase identification range of airborne threats. |
| (U) Continue to collect airborne data to evaluate the increase in identification range provided by advanced tracking algorithms versus existing tracking systems. | |
| (U) $3,322 | Develop technologies for targeting both stationary and moving ground-based threats with precision, utilizing both on-board and off-board targeting information. These technologies provide the targeting solution required to release air-to-surface weapons. |
| (U) Complete performance evaluation of advanced targeting techniques utilizing real-time off-board information from airborne data collection. | |
| (U) Complete analysis of off-board targeting concepts and provide option to transition to operational aircraft. | |
| (U) $13,343 | Total |
(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands) :
| FY 1995 | FY 1996 | FY 1997 | Total
Cost | |
| (U) Previous President's Budget | 8,478 | 14,069 | 13,823 | Cont |
| (U) Current Budget Submit | 7,995 | 13,388 | 13,343 | Cont |
(U) Change Summary Explanation:
Funding: Vertical reductions to this project since the previous President's Budget are due to budget contraints and priorities within the Science and Technology (S&T) Program. The FY 1995 to FY 1996 horizontal increase is due to an increased emphasis on precision location and targeting.
Schedule: Not Applicable.
Technical: Not Applicable.
(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary :
(U) Related Activities :
(U) PE 0602204F, Aerospace Avionics.
(U) PE 0603253F, Advanced Avionics Integration.
(U) Advanced Research Projects Agency, Moving/Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition.
(U) Theater Missile Defense System Program Office.
(U) Low Altitude Night Targeting and Infrared Navigation (LANTIRN) System Program Office.
(U) This project has been coordinated through the Project Reliance process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication.
(U) D. Schedule Profile : Not Applicable.