US Air Force researchers plan to invest 33.6 million U.S. dollars to launch a five-year sensor fusion project. The project aims to enhance the operational effectiveness of surveillance radars by incorporating optoelectronic technologies such as visible light, infrared, multispectral and hyperspectral sensors.

This week, Air Force Research Laboratory officials announced the PRECISE project.

The PRECISE project not only incorporates several different RF and photo sensors, but also enhances radar technology through signal processing, optional bandwidth, and similar algorithms.

The project mainly researches and develops enabling technologies to enhance the combat personnel's ability to identify the battlefield and to focus on the radar-based air / ground target recognition capability of reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft.

The technology proposed by the PRECISE project will be integrated into the surveillance aircraft for a demonstration of flight.

Air Force researchers said the official announcement of the project will be released in March 2018, and at this time there is no requirement for a white paper or proposal.