U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

A -- MULTI-SENSOR UTILIZATION & INTEGRATION FOR TARGETING ENHANCEMENT DUE 072000 POC Mark Gahler, Project Leader, 703-704-1315, Toni Ables, Contract Specialist, 732-427-1362 E-MAIL: click here to contact the project leader via e-mail, mgahler@nvl.army.mil. U.S. Army CECOM Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate intends to acquire under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, Multi-Sensor Utilization and Integration for Targeting Enhancement to support of the Comanche (RAH-66) Engineering Mode Development (EMD) program. This effort is to develop and demonstrate second-generation FLIR and Longbow fire control rada (FCR) sensor fusion technology, and to provide a Mode Definition Document (MDD) to Comanche for a multi-sensor aided target recognition (ATR) capability and EMD targeting software. The resulting sensor fusion algorithm suite will utilize the existing Comanche Aided Target Detection/Classification (ATD/C) algorithms for FLIR processing, and the Longbow/Comanche FCR algorithm for radar processing. Specific areas of development and demonstration include establishing the multi-sensor target association requirements for ATR performance and relating those requirements to Comanche FLIR and radar sensor gimbals and controls. Second, multi-sensor "feature fusion" ATR algorithms will be developed and demonstrated that meet the Comanche sensor fusion performance requirements for probability of detection, false alarm rate, probability of classification, and probability of recognition on the Comanche target vehicle set. These performance requirements include operating both in a hover and in search-on-the-move mode against both stationary and moving targets. Third, multi-sensor fusion capability will be pursued to deal with environmental, cultural, or signal-managed conditions characterized as poor for each sensor in-turn: poor radar with norminal FLIR or poor FLIR with nominal radar. Performance will not degrade to less than single performance. The contractor must be able to obtain and maintain proprietary exchange agreements with the Comanche prime and relevent target acquisition system subcontractors: Boeing Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Longbow LLC. This requirement is for a forty-two month effort. The Government intends to award a sole source contract to Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector located in Baltimore, Maryland. Posted 07/05/00 (W-SN471537). (0187)

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