SBIR-STTR Award

The objective of this Phase I proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of automating the tasking and reporting of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets in real-time. These ISR assets consist of multiple sensors onboard space, air, sea and land-based platforms performing cooperative, multi-INT, cross-program ISR activities. To achieve this objective and overcome the inherent information and time latencies of centralized, ground-based processing and control architectures, these autonomous agents will be installed onboard individual ISR platforms and be given the capability to (1) detect and recognize events, (2) monitor the state of the ISR environment, (3) make intelligent, autonomous decisions and (4) re-task their ISR assets. To provide autonomous tasking capability, the algorithms will provide a multi-tiered, cross-program decision process and demonstrate robustness, fault-tolerance and a comprehensive status monitoring capability

The objective of this research proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of automating the tasking of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assetts in real-time. These ISR assetts consist of multiple sensors onboard space, air, sea and land-based platforms performing cooperative, multi-INT, cross-program ISR activities. To achieve this objective and overcome the inherent information and time latencies of centralized, ground-based processing and control architectures, these autonomous agents will be given the capability to (1) detect and recognize events, (2) monitor the state of the ISR environment, (3) make intelligent, autonomous decisions and (4) re-task their ISR assetts. To provide this autonomous tasking capability, the algorithms will provide a multi-tiered, cross-program decision process that can incorporate real-time feedback and external observations of target state, collector performance, and environmental effects.

Keywords:
COOPERATIVE ISRGEOLOCATION RESOURCE ALLOCATION SIGINT