Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) and Space Exploitation

"Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc. will develop a prototype Non-Gaussian Data Fusion System (NGDFS) that will accurately fuse all of the information available from large numbers of sensors using non-Gaussian and multiple hypothesis techniques along withcomputer resource optimization algorithms and high-performance, inexpensive, hardware to allow this computationally intensive data fusion process to take place in near-real-time. NGDFS will utilize the non-Gaussian tracking information when determiningthe likelihood that a contact is associated with a particular target, and will also produce target tracks that are as high quality as possible given the available data. NGDFS will process data from passive and active acoustic systems used in bothtraditional monostatic and bistatic modes. It will also process data from traditional non-acoustic systems such as radar as well as emerging non-acoustic systems such as wake detectors. We will quantitatively analyze the performance of NGDFS in ourDecision Support System Testbed (DSST), using hundreds of simulated targets and hundreds of simulated acoustic and non-acoustic sensors. This analysis will measure the distance between the NGDFS Situation Awareness (SA) picture and ground truth, usingoperationally oriented and honesty inducing metrics and measure the improvement in data fusion performance as a function of computer resources. The prototype NGDFS will allow us to demonstrate how advanc