SBIR-STTR Award

The number of sensors in use by the Navy will never decrease. With each advance in technology comes the cost of implementation and integration into previously matured systems vital to Naval tactical operations. The Universal Sensor Definition Schema is designed to consider and address modern communication needs in challenging environments, be those A) sensor-to-ship, B) ship-to-ship, C) ship-to-sat, or D) ship-to-shore/sat-to-shore. To improve the capacity to request, retrieve, and process information across the wider operational sensor systems including legacy sensor arrays and/or new sensor payloads, small business ARiA (PI Dr. Summers) and research institution Bates College (PI Dr. Jadud) will leverage their complimentary areas of expertise to develop and demonstrate the Universal Sensor Definition Schema (USDS) as a suite of API definitions and messaging algorithms to meet the long-term solution of unifying the sensor request interfaces

Benefit:
Our primary commercialization target is the AN/UYQ-100 Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) command and control (C2) system Acquisition Category IV-T (ACAT IV) program of record (POR). USDS will enable more robust and maintainable interfaces for communicating and coordinating information including environmental analysis, collaborative search planning, force management, the common tactical picture, sensor tracks, and sensor metrics to support networked tactical decision aids (TDAs), automated and manual cross-platform track fusion and other functions of USW-DSS. Additional commercialization targets are foundational infrastructure systems in the United States (power, water, communications); medium-term targets include industrial control and automation systems and long-term targets include inter-vehicle communication systems for autonomous vehicles and aircraft in the commercial sector.

Keywords:
Standardization of Sensors, Standardization of Sensors, Open-source, Technology Stack, Open Geospatial Consortium, USW-DSS AN/UYQ-100, Universal Interface

The number of sensors in use by the Navy will never decrease. With each advance in technology comes the cost of implementation and integration into previously matured systems vital to Naval tactical operations. The Universal Sensor Definition Schema is designed to consider and address modern communication needs in challenging environments, be those A) sensor-to-ship, B) ship-to-ship, C) ship-to-sat, or D) ship-to-shore/sat-to-shore. To improve the capacity to request, retrieve, and process information across the wider operational sensor systems including legacy sensor arrays and/or new sensor payloads, the project team will leverage their complimentary areas of expertise to develop and demonstrate the Universal Sensor Definition Schema (USDS) as a suite of API definitions and messaging algorithms to meet the long-term solution of unifying the sensor request interfaces.

Benefit:
Our primary commercialization target is the AN/UYQ-100 Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) command and control (C2) system Acquisition Category IV-T (ACAT IV) program of record (POR). USDS will enable more robust and maintainable interfaces for communicating and coordinating information including environmental analysis, collaborative search planning, force management, the common tactical picture, sensor tracks, and sensor metrics to support networked tactical decision aids (TDAs), automated and manual cross-platform track fusion and other functions of USW-DSS. Additional commercialization targets are foundational infrastructure systems in the United States (power, water, communications); medium-term targets include industrial control and automation systems and long-term targets include inter-vehicle communication systems for autonomous vehicles and aircraft in the commercial sector.

Keywords:
Open Geospatial Consortium, Universal Interface, Standardization of Sensors, Open-source, USW-DSS AN/UYQ-10, Technology Stack