Passive RADAR integration with AI-enabled Terminal Airspace Awareness Suite ("Bird Brain") for Forward-deployed and Contested SOF Airfield Operations

Thrust AI's existing airspace situational awareness suite ("Bird Brain") integrates four real-time sensor modalities with modern AI/ML processing algorithms to deliver unprecedented situational awareness to terminal air traffic controllers, far beyond the capability of conventional RADAR, ADS-B, or visual control CONOPS. Bird Brain aggregatesĀ(1) visual-band optical, (2) infrared electro-optical, (3) automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), and (4) VHF/UHF radio speech sensor inputs before passing fused streams through three AI/ML layers: two adaptively-filtered computer vision layers and one natural language processing layer. Integration of a modular passive RADAR system will be investigated either in supplement to or in lieu of Bird Brain's ADS-B sensor package in order to detect aircraft which may not be operating transponders, either by aircraft designĀor by intention to deny positional recognition. This capability expands the existing uncontested airfield solution to the forward-operating contested environment in which USAF or adversary aircraft purposely deny transmittal of ADS-B data. The functional architecture of Bird Brain will retain its current commercial solution capabilities in that it will bestow low-light extra-visual aircraft detection beyond the capability of the human eye, automatic recognition of position-correlated pattern communications, and automated traffic resolution alerting. The integration of a modular passive RADAR sensor will allow for persistent monitoring of aircraft signatures, correlating telemetry with AI-processed communications via algorithmic systems integration. Telemetry data gained via a notional Bird Brain RADAR suite will serve as slew input to 360-degree PTZ Infrared Optics, affording forward-deployed operators a slew-point-lock capability to aircraft of interest within the vicinity of an austere contested airfield.