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AN ANALYTIC-BASED SENSOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE PACKAGE

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 17813
Amount: $736,740.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1993
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
7017 S. Richfield St
Aurora, CO 80016
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Dr W. Kober
 (303) 699-2421
Business Contact
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Research Institution
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Abstract

DATA FUSION CORPORATION PROPOSES THE PHASE I INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATHEMATICAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SENSOR RESOURCES IN TACTICAL AIRCRAFT. THIS MODEL WILL INCORPORATE THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AH), A MATRIX EIGENVALUE-EIGENVECTOR METHOD FOR FORMULATING A SCALE OF ABSOLUTE PRIORITIES FOR PAIR-WISE RELATIVE PRIORITIES AMONG POTENTIAL ACTIONS. IT WILL ALSO INCORPORATE TIME-DEPENDENT VALUE FUNCTIONS FOR THESE ACTIONS. POTENTIAL SEQUENCES OF ACTIONS WILL BE EVALUATED USING NON-MYOPIC DECISION THEORY. FINALLY, THE PRIORITIZIATION WILL ACCOMMODATE EITHER BAYESIAN OR A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE DEMPSTER-SHAFER FORMALISM FOR INCORPORATION OF UNCERTAINTIES INTO THE COMPUTATIONS. PHASE II WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE SIMULATION TEST BED WHICH IMPLEMENTS THESE MODELS AND EXERCISES THEM UNDER TACTICALLY MEANINGFUL SCENARIOS, RESULTING IN DEVELOPED, TESTED AND DOCUMENTED ALGORITHMS FOR EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS. PHASE III WOULD BE DIRECTED TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADA SOFTWARE PACKAGE SUITABLE FOR A REAL-TIME, EMBEDDED SYSTEM.

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