Sensors and Communications Systems

Abstract

Sensors and communications systems are key components of air and missile defense systems, enabling those systems to search to long ranges; detect and track aircraft, missiles, satellites, and artillery; discriminate and identify threatening objects; and pass that information on to combat systems and weapons that act on it to defeat threats. Our adversaries’ cruise and ballistic missile threat capabilities continue to evolve, making it challenging for our modern systems to perform these functions with sufficient accuracy and timeliness to maintain defense superiority.