SBIR-STTR Award

Progeny Systems will apply its expertise in SOA design and implementation, and legacy systems integration, to assess and define a feasible integration system architecture and approach that will permit maritime airborne platforms to provide near-real time dissemination of collected maritime airborne mission data. That architecture and approach will include a strategy for gaining access to legacy “stove-piped” system data and capabilities, selecting standards to which that data will be transformed, identifying infrastructure concepts and components necessary for airborne data dissemination, and bandwidth management techniques applicable to disadvantaged network users.

Keywords:
Maritime Patrol And Reconnaissance Force, Maritime Patrol And Reconnaissance Force, Open Architecture (Oa), Service Oriented Infrastructure, Software Systems Integration, Serv

For this effort, Progeny Systems Corporation is proposing to perform the initial development of the Pathfinder set of algorithms which normalize navigation data from a variety of sources and expose that data for aircraft and systems applications. As part of this normalization, the hub will contain filtering and correlation functions while can assess weighted and scaled navigation inputs. This normalized nav data (RF PNT data, scene matching, EGI and SOO data) will be analyzed by Pathfinder algorithms for own-ship position and be provided as a “nav out”. In conjunction with the Pathfinder algorithms a hosting environment will be developed. The hosting environment is envisioned to run on a PMA 209 specified hardware baseline, with the goal of hosting multiple, disparate systems; allowing them to communicate with each other and the baseline aircraft; and easily displaying relevant tactical data. Pathfinder will run within the PMA 209 hosting environment, coordinating a variety of Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) data inputs including:• Computer Vision (CV) for scene matching• Radio Frequency (RF) - based PNT• Signals of Opportunity (SOO)• Own-ship’ Embedded GPS and Inertial Navigation Systems (EGI) signals