A -- MULTI-SENSOR UTILIZATION & INTEGRATION FOR TARGETING ENHANCEMENT

Notice Date

September 6, 2000

Contracting Office

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

ZIP Code

07703-5008

Solicitation Number

DAAB07-00-R-K635

Response Due

September 22, 2000

Point of Contact

POC Joseph Libbey, Contract Specialist, (732)427-1393; Mark Gahler, Project Leader (703)704-1315

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via (Joseph.Libbey@mail1.monmouth.army.mil)

Description

DESC: 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 radar (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 to 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. Performance is not to degrade to less than single performance. The contractor must be able to obtain and maintain proprietary exchange agreements with the Comanche prime and relevant target acquisition system subcontractors: Boeing Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp, Lockheed Martin Corp, and longbow Corp. This requirement is for a forty-two month effort. The Government intends to award a sole source contract to Northrop Grumman Corp., Electronic Sensors & Systems Sector located in Baltimore, MD.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20000908/ASOL002.HTM (W-250 SN493751)