Coastal Systems Station, Dahlgren Division, 6703 W. Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001

A -- MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ALGORITHMS SOL N61331-00-Q-1703 DUE 121099 POC Contract Specialist, John Miller, (850) 235-5399; Contracting Officer, Carol Dreger, (850) 234-4863 WEB: www.ncsc.navy.mil/contracts/synopsis/syntable.htm, www.ncsc.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Miller_John@ncsc.navy.mil, Miller_John@ncsc.navy.mil. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Coastal Systems Station, Panama City, Florida, intends to award a sole-source purchase order to Raytheon, Portsmouth, RI, for a continuation of basic research for the development of unique mathematical and statistical algorithms for enhancing sonar data, detecting, and classifying mines in sonar imagery. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has requested that the Raytheon CAD/CAC algorithms be adapted to a variety of Mine Reconnaissance and Minehunting systems and demonstrate the capability over the next 6 years. One demonstration, scheduled for the FY00 time frame, will be with REMUS, a minehunting unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) for the very shallow water (VSW) region. This acquisition is unsuitable for full and open competition for the following reasons. Raytheon is uniquely qualified for this effort because they have developed unique imagery techniques and algorithms designed to greatly reduce data handling requirements and still permit reliable mine classification in highly cluttered sonar imagery. The unique CAD/CAC/Fusion algorithms developed by Raytheon are comprised of: 1. an adaptive highlight/shadow segmentor that adjusts its thresholds to new environments 2. an extractor for classification features related to highlight and shadow characteristics 3. an multi-level scoring classifier based on Raytheon's R&D with the AQS-20 minehunting system. The Raytheon's algorithms have performed in an exemplary manner to date on limited government furnished sonar data. Only Raytheon has the unique knowledge base, the facilities, and the experienced personnel necessary to successfully conduct the work. The key personnel have invested over four years in gaining the unique knowledge, insight, and skills necessary. Additionally, the algorithms developed by Raytheon represent many work-years under other Raytheon/DOD contracts and Raytheon's own independent research and development (IRAD). The algorithms are very sophisticated and require specialized knowledge to use properly thus another vendor cannot easily or cost-effectively duplicate them. Contract Specialist: John Miller, Code SP10, Coastal Systems Station, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, Fl 32407-7001 (850) 235 5399, FAX (850) 234-4251. Posted 11/24/99 (W-SN403502). (0328)

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