Long-term average of 100 short-exposure image frames, with super-resolution image constructed from lucky regions in these 100 image frames (Credit: Darpa)

Because of the need to interpolate the full image from fragments, the SRVS system will not operate in real time. Delays of approximately one second are anticipated before the composite image is shown to the viewer. DARPA hopes to achieve 90% facial recognition of an individual one kilometer away using a six centimeter lens that will fit into the form factor currently used for military scopes. The image resolution would be approximately three times that of current diffraction-based scopes. The increase in effective distance of the new scopes has not been released (or is not yet known).  

Part of DARPA's SRVS presentation (Credit: DARPA)

TFOT has reported on other innovations in the field of optics including recent advances in nanobioimaging, new materials developed at Princeton University that bend light in the opposite direction from naturally occurring materials, and a new image processing technique called ISAM developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

You can find more information on the official DARPA page for the SRVS project here (more in this DARPA presentation).