Netted Full Spectrum Sensors

"The battlefield of the future will be a "digital battlefield" dominated by unmanned air and ground vehicles, precision guided smart weapons, and networked full-spectrum sensor arrays. Measurement and Signals Intelligence (MASINT) micro-sensors will be the"five senses" of future digital battlefields, detecting and tracking friend and foe alike. Maneuver brigade commanders will deploy distributed arrays of micro-sensors containing a range of sensing elements (e.g., chem-bio, acoustic, seismic, magnetic,electro-optical, RF, etc.) for remote sensing, ground surveillance, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Electronic Attack (EA) missions in urban and non-urban terrains. These micro-sensor arrays will be capable of communicating both real-time andhistorical information to individual soldiers, small units, and higher echelon C4I assets through self-forming wireless networks. The networked sensor arrays will have a flexible architecture; provide full coverage of the MASINT spectrum; be capable ofdeployment by various means (e.g., manual, robot, air-drop); and will endure long-term, all-weather, unattended deployments while maintaining high reliability and survivability. For this Phase I effort, Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) will definebaseline performance and current state-of-the-art for MASINT micro-sensor system elements and design a flexible, open, networked sensor system architecture that includes critical new capabilities, i