Characterize API for Real-time computing systems and Test upon processor upgrades (CART) Phase II

End-to-end targeting systems for littoral warfighting require effective decision support from maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets. Novel data fusion engines can effectively correlate, fuse, and track contacts and targets ofinterest, offering high-payoff, automated subsurface and surface ISR. Our proposed approach for Multisource Maritime Surveillance will leverage ORINCON-developed technology to fuse information from multiple diverse sources, including, but not limited to,passive and active acoustic, airborne/spaceborne imagery, and airborne video imagery. ORINCON has developed and currently uses state-of-the-art multiple-hypothesis tracking (MHT) algorithms to fuse passive and active acoustic information into a commonscene. In conjunction with Prof. R. Chris Olsen of the Naval Postgraduate School, we will begin investigations into the fusion of airborne/spaceborne visible and infrared imagery into the acoustic view of the littoral region. This work will begin aneffort in which data from all available sources is fused into a common picture to provide the Fleet with improved understanding of the littoral region as the Navy moves into the 21st century.Commercialization begins with technology insertions for NorthropGrumman's Tactical Exploitation Surveillance System and Littoral Surveillance System (TESS/LSS). ORINCON's data fusion and automation technologies directly apply to ONR's Deployable Advanced Distributed System (DADS) and can be seamlessly integrated withfuture fielded systems such as the Advanced Deployable System (ADS). Vessel traffic managers and regional airport traffic controllers will also benefit from our hybrid data fusion engine that handles both image-processed and signal-processed inputs. Thefusion of imagery data with Joint STARS moving target indicator (MTI) radar has potential applications in other branches of the military. Anticipated benefits extend to commercial markets for our pattern recognition, data correlation/fusion, and knowledgemanagement products for health care industries and multiple electronic businesses.