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Multiple Frame Assignment Tracking of Surface Targets

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
70123 		Program Year/Program:
2005 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N041-107-0306 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Numerica Corporation
4850 Hahns Peak Drive Suite 200 Loveland, CO -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2005
Title: Multiple Frame Assignment Tracking of Surface Targets
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N00014-05-C-0436
Award Amount: $441,774.00
 

Abstract:

Defense against asymmetric threats such as small surface swarms is an important area of concern. For homeland security, drug trafficking surveillance, and the protection of Navy assets it is necessary to track these highly maneuverable targets, perhaps in large numbers. This requires a tracking system that provides high-fidelity correlation and state estimation in real-time and in the presence of merged measurements, high false alarm rates, and temporal target occlusion. Numerica has developed state-of-the-art tracking systems for air and missile defense based on its Multiple Frame Assignment (MFA) data correlation method. Phase I adapted this algorithm to the surface target tracking problem and demonstrated good performance on challenging scenarios. The proposed Phase II will fully mature this algorithm and transition it to a COTS ROTS. To support Navy's development of ship self-defense weapons systems two additional algorithm developments will be pursued: (i) merged measurement processing for mechanically scanned radar and (ii) assessment of data association ambiguity to compute interceptor guide-to-regions. The Phase II product will satisfy Navy's need for an advanced tracking solution in the littoral against asymmetric threats. The algorithm is adapted from a network-centric algorithm and thus may serve more general tracking needs within Navy's envisioned network-centric warfare concepts.

Principal Investigator:

Benjamin Slocumb
Senior Research Scientist
9704198343
bjslocumb@numerica.us

Business Contact:

Jeff Poore
Vice President
9704198343
jbpoore@numerica.us
Small Business Information at Submission:

NUMERICA CORP.
PO Box 271246 Ft. Collins, CO 80527

EIN/Tax ID: 841349484
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No