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

A -- MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ALGORITHMS SOL N61331-00-Q-1709 DUE 040700 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 Lockheed Martin Defense Systems, Syracuse, NY 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 Coastal Systems Station (CSS) adapt the Lockheed Martin CAD/CAC algorithms to a variety of Mine Reconnaissance and Mine-hunting systems and demonstrate the capability over the next 6 years. The purpose of this task is to demonstrate and evaluate the Lockheed Martin Company's (LMC) Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) and fusion algorithms for the automated detection and classification of sea mines in sonar imagery. The proposed tasks will support an FY-00 demonstration of the CAD/CAC and data fusion processing in conjunction with other algorithms developed by the Coastal Systems Station (CSS) and Raytheon. The Lockheed Martin algorithms have performed in an exemplary manner to date on limited government furnished sonar data. Only Lockheed Martin 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 Lockheed Martin represent many work-years under other Lockheed Martin/DOD contracts and Lockheed Martin'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 03/23/00 (W-SN437487). (0083)

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