SBIR/STTR Research Award
Distributed Fusion for Sensor Fields - MP 04-09
Award amount
$69,980Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- METRON INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2009-05-18
- Contract end date
- 2010-03-18
- UEI
- EN78W198KUG7
- Solicitation number
- 2009.1
- Topic code
- N091-068
Research abstract
A new distributed data fusion system design will result from this Phase I SBIR project. The new data fusion system will be tailored to geographically disperse sensor fields that can be formed by a group of manned or unmanned vehicles. Autonomous operation will be emphasized, with prioritization assigned to selected target tracks and timely alerts provided to system operators. The NodestarPlus software program is a multi-target tracker developed by Metron for heterogeneous sensor fields in anti-submarine warfare applications. Metron has also developed the Multiple-Source Correlation and Tracking (MCT) data fusion architecture. The MCT architecture minimizes data exchange requirements while allowing each network node to reproduce an identical copy of the common operating picture. The new distributed fusion system will combine NodestarPlus and MCT technologies. Feasibility of the hybrid fusion concept will be validated using simulations studies in Phase I.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- OAML Modernization and Cyber Hardening -- 24-066
- Reliable and Explainable Data-driven Methods for ELINT Signal Detection/Classification -- 25-012
- Multi-target Bayesian Tracking Phase II - 24-072
- Multi-source Data Ingestion for Warfighters -- 25-037
- NAVSEA Open Topic for Operations and Logistics in a Contested Environment: Enhance Mission Capabilities of USV/UUV and Systems
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Distributed Sensor Fusion - Application to MFA Tracking, Classification and Fusion
- Decentralized and Autonomous Data Fusion Service (DADFS) - MOD 1
- Mobile-Agent-Based Autonomous Data Fusion for Distributed Sensors
- Mobile-Agent-Based Autonomous Data Fusion for Distributed Sensors
- Mobile-Agent-Based Collaborative Sensor Fusion
Research funding history
194 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2025). Reported award amounts total $79,536,370. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services