High Temperature Micromachined Sensor for Industrial Gas Streams

Not Available The explosive growth of information technology provides a tremendous opportunity for enhancing U.S. military warfighting capabilities. The management and processing of military intelligence information and the requisite assessment of enemy capabilities, intent, and objectives form a critical element of Air Force battlespace operations. Here, we propose an Intelligent Threat Assessment Processor (ITAP). Our novel system integrates a genetic algorithm approach to predicting enemy courses of action (eCOAs), a fuzzy logic-based analysis of predicted eCOAs to infer enemy intent and objectives, and in conjunction with our on-going development of an Intelligent Fusion and Asset Management Processor (IFAMP), provides the necessary functionality to support multi-level data fusion. We see considerable potential for this approach in enhancing existing Air Force tactical C4I systems and addressing future information dominated battlespace requirements. The Phase I effort will focus on feasibility assessment. We expect to: 1) identify system requirements and define the scope of the effort; 2) formulate and design a prototype ITAP for the requirements and the application scenario; 3) develop a working concept prototype integrated with our IFAMP system; 4) demonstrate its use and assess overall feasibility in a selected tactical battlefield scenario; and 5) develop requirements for follow-on development and product commercialization.