Air Force gets help with sensor architecture

The Air Force has awarded Ball Aerospace and Technologies a $12 million contract to help develop an architecture that will improve the analysis of sensor data.

Under the contract, Ball Aerospace will establish methodologies, tools and techniques for a distributed architecture for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s multilayered sensing initiative, the Defense Department announced March 6.

The initiative was established to improve the assimilation of sensor information so warfighters can use it to anticipate and react to threats. The architecture will help address various technical and data challenges associated with gathering and compiling sensor data.

The lab’s Sensors Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.