Wilson wants USAF to explore new target location, identification technologies

By Jason Sherman / December 6, 2018 at 6:00 PM
The Air Force is contemplating development of a new intelligence enterprise for target location and identification impervious to both kinetic and non-kinetic threats, which experts believe could eventually render today's sensor and command-and-control architecture -- technology that ushered in the age of precision-munition warfare a generation ago -- obsolete. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has directed the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board to conduct a study over the next year on "Multi-Source Data Fusion for Target Location and Identification," according...

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