The Standoff Intelligence Detection (SID) program is an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) quick reaction program, tasked with providing the warfighter ready-now technologies related to directed energy, optics, and photonics. The first variant of these aircraft was started in 2008 utilizing two Cessna 182Q aircraft retrofitted with a wing mounted imaging systems and mission equipment. The 3rd generation of these imaging aircraft is equipped on a Cessna T-206H, Turbo Stationair. The aircraft is a 6-seat, single-engine aircraft, retrofitted with an MX-15HDi sensor system and supporting equipment.

The SID Program has produced the aircraft to provide an ISR platform to support tests, exercises, search and rescue, and real-world needs.

Date Published: 15 October 2012
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 8520, Unconventional Imaging and Wavefront Sensing 2012, 85200P (15 October 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.928627

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8520:
Unconventional Imaging and Wavefront Sensing 2012
Jean J. Dolne; Thomas J. Karr; Victor L. Gamiz, Editor(s)