P22-068 Spotter

SoarTech, MTRI, and Attollo Defense propose Spotter, a swarm fusion solution for decentralized teams of low SWAP platforms. Spotter improves identification and tracking for collaborative munitions within complex adversarial environments.  Spotter leverages heterogeneous sensors, diverse viewing geometries, and contextual data. Spotter will be integrated with SoarTech’s SwarmMATE infrastructure. SwarmMATE is our 4th generation autonomous unmanned systems swarming environment based on 20+ years of research and $15M in investment. SwarmMATE controls the flight paths of heterogenous sensors to optimize the collection of data to improve their performance. It will support distributed task optimization for this effort and serve as an ideal control platform for future efforts. During the Phase I effort, we will develop the Phase II design, and demonstrate core technologies in simulation.  During the Phase II effort, we will demonstrate Spotter on surrogate UAS platforms.