The AGRI system is being developed by Raytheon Company of El Segundo, California and is funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Sensor Directorate

AGRI will permit identification of target without the need for "eyeball-on-target". Such a system, which could be mounted on a manned or unmanned aircraft, would reduce the need for personnel on the ground or in the air to get in harm's way. There would be no need for them to get into close proximity of the target and make a visual identification.

Today's advanced high-resolution radar can monitor events from distances of more than 50 miles.

During the first stage of the AGRI Program Raytheon developed a real-time, model-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) architecture that leveraged Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) ATR algorithm already developed earlier by AFRL.

Raytheon is currently working on the second stage of AGRI. The goal during this stage is to develop and demonstrate software that will permit current radar technology to track and target hostile forces in motion on the ground.

Raytheon is leading a team that includes BAE Systems and SAIC. The contract requires the team to test its proposal initially in October 2006 and conduct a final demonstration in June 2008.

Ref: Air Force Research Directory