Future DOD Airborne High-Frequency Radar Needs/Resources : Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force

This study by the Defense Science Board Task Force, Dept. of Defense, was established to focus on the use of airborne X-band radar to serve the broad mission areas of air defense & ground surveillance. The findings & recommendations of the Task Force provide a clear path for development & utilization of Active Electronically Steered Arrays (AESAs) on a variety of systems & platforms. The primary focus of the study was the assessment of X-band AESA technology for use in side-looking radar surveillance systems, viz, the U-2, Global Hawk & JSTARS. The Task Force found that the state-of-the-art in X-band AESAs is sufficiently advanced at this time to permit insertion into airborne side-looking radars with relatively low technical risk. Illustrated.Briggs, David is the author of 'Future DOD Airborne High-Frequency Radar Needs/Resources : Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756738549 and ISBN 0756738547.