DARPA to Spend Over $800 Million on Surveillance & Countermeasures Project

DARPA to Spend Over $800 Million on Surveillance & Countermeasures Project (NSI News Source Info) NEWTOWN, Conn. - October 19, 2008: Forecast International projects that the U.S. DARPA will spend over $814 million over the next decade on its Surveillance and Countermeasures Technology project. The project is involved with developing sensor technology to enhance the accuracy and timeliness of U.S. DoD surveillance and targeting systems for improved battlefield awareness, strike capability, and battle damage assessment. The U.S. DARPA's Surveillance and Countermeasures Technology project will take advantage of a number of new developments in such areas as multi-spectral target phenomenology, signal processing, low-power high-performance computing, and low-cost microelectronics to create advanced surveillance and targeting systems. Additionally, the project will encompass several advanced technologies related to the development of techniques to counter advanced battlefield threats. Despite DARPA's plans to invest large sums of money on this project in the coming years, it still remains to be seen whether the U.S. congress will appropriate this funding, given the current high levels of federal government spending.