Underground Facility Detection & Characterization
Underground facilities are a serious and growing asymmetric threat to U.S. forces and their allies security and operational dominance. Adversaries are now aware of the U.S. military's sophisticated intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance assets and the global reach of U.S. strike capabilities, and have built deeply buried underground facilities to hide their activities and protect them from attack. To meet the challenge posed by these hidden facilities, STO is investing in sensor technologies that find, characterize and identify facility function, pace of activity, and activities in conjunction with their pre and post attack status. STO is also investigating non-nuclear earth-penetrating systems for the defeat of hard and deeply buried targets.
