Universities of Cambridge, Surrey and Sheffield will partner to address fundamental challenges in distributed sensing, multimodal data fusion and autonomous sensor management that the defence sector is facing, thanks to a $1.2M grant awarded by US Army and UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). The project titled, “SIGNetS: signal and information gathering for networked surveillance”, is funded under the scheme “Signal and Information Processing for Decentralized Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance” https://beta.sam.gov/opp/956cf00032cf42ffb30d5cc591d4fac4/view?keywords=..., a recent call from the US Army and UK MoD, aiming to address fundamental challenges associated with information processing and fusion in decentralized network of sensors in “Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance “ (ISR).