Unified Interceptor Assignment Algorithms (Missile Defense Agency)

Unified Interceptor Assignment Algorithms  (Missile Defense Agency)

 Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the Missile Defense Agency to continue development of their Unified Interceptor Assignment Algorithms for pairing incoming missiles with the most capable interception platform.  The algorithms were previously demonstrated in simulation under a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research Program.  This contract continues SSCI’s industry-leading work in using the Unified Bayesian methodology to intelligently optimize resource management in a variety of applications ranging from sensor networks to robotic vehicles or missile defense.

 The two-year contract is valued at approximately $1 M.  SSCI is supported in this project by the Mission Systems & Sensor (MS2) division of Lockheed Martin. 

 

VERIFY II (AFRL Wright-Patterson)

VERIFY II  (AFRL Wright-Patterson)

 Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to continue development of their VERIFY system for sensor evaluation and integrity monitoring, previously demonstrated under a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research Program. VERIFY monitors a sensor’s measurements and compares against other system data to evaluate trustworthiness of the measurements, which is especially valuable when SWaP constraints are prohibitive of full sensor redundancy.  This system will be used by manned and unmanned aircraft to detect anomalous readings in sensor data (primarily radar) which would indicate that the sensor is out of calibration or in need of maintenance. Because the VERIFY system can alert analysts, mission planners, and flight crews to the problem before the sensor fails—and when possible will mitigate the failure to continue obtaining usable data—VERIFY reduces the requirement for redundancy in sensors and missions to ensure that the needed information is obtained.

 “This project builds on SSCI’s long history of work in the prognostics and health monitoring field,” said Mr. Joe Jackson, principal engineer on the Phase II project.  “By reducing the need for spares and preemptive or reactive maintenance to produce confidence in the instruments’ performance, this project will produce a cost savings for the Air Force and help the warfighter collect actionable intelligence under adverse circumstances.”

 The two-year contract is valued at approximately $750,000.  SSCI is supported in this project by the Brigham Young University.

 

FAUST (Finite-field Algebra for Unbeatable Situational-awareness in Tactical networks) (U.S. Army)

FAUST (Finite-field Algebra for Unbeatable Situational-awareness in Tactical networks) (U.S. Army)

 Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, to continue development of their Finite-field Algebra for Unbeatable Situational-awareness in Tactical networks (FAUST), previously demonstrated under a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research Program.  The FAUST algorithms provide scalability and survivability for tactical networks connecting vehicles, robots, and soldiers, while efficiently synchronizing Situational Awareness information among all nodes.  This award extends SSCI’s ongoing work in a variety of specialized ad hoc networking techniques intended for airborne, man-portable, and unmanned vehicle networks.

 “The The value of FAUST is that it can quickly update large amounts of information across all nodes in the network, even if the network connectivity is intermittent,” said Mr. Carlos Gutierrez, lead engineer for the FAUST project.  By passing a description of the information rather than the information itself, FAUST reduces synch times by an order of magnitude compared to current algorithms.  “This has great applicability to wifi and cellular networks, where a large number of users could create a bottleneck in synchronization,” Mr. Gutierrez said.

 The two-year contract is valued at approximately $750,000, including options.  SSCI is supported in this project by Boston University. 

 

PNAV: Human Motion Labeling and Quantification for Personal Navigation

PNAV: Human Motion Labeling and Quantification for Personal Navigation

Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Computers and Electronics Research Development and Engineering Command (CERDEC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, to continue development of their PNAV system for quantifying human motion for improved navigation in the absence of GPS.  The PNAV system uses low-cost accelerometers like those found in a smart phone to accurately determine whether a person is walking, crawling, jumping, climbing, ascending or descending stairs, or performing other actions.  The system uses GPS when available to learn an individual Soldier’s motion characteristics and feeds this information into the Army’s next-generation navigation system to locate a Soldier indoors or in tunnels or caves.

The two-year contract is valued at approximately $750,000.  SSCI is supported in this project by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Honeywell Corporation. 

 

Distributed Battle Data Network (AFRL Wright-Patterson)

Distributed Battle Data Network (AFRL Wright-Patterson)

 Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to continue development of their Distributed Battle Data Network (DBDN) system, previously demonstrated under a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research Program.  This system will be used by manned and unmanned aircraft and ground stations to detect and avoid enemy air defenses through innovative information sharing between all networked assets.  DBDN provides routing that automatically generates multi-path routes when they are needed to keep track of more network state information so routes will minimize exposure to enemy interference, and Disruption Tolerant Networking techniques to avoid data loss during short outages and increase detection information delivery. DBDN also provides network organization techniques to optimize detection information delivery to fusion nodes that can combine them to detect enemy emitters and methods for fast detection of congestion or link loss to trigger re-routing.

The two-year contract is valued at approximately $750,000.  SSCI is supported in this project by the BBN Technologies division of Raytheon.

 

CLCQMRTN (Navy SPAWAR)

 CLCQMRTN (Navy SPAWAR)

Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center, San Diego, CA, to continue development of their Cross-Layer Cache and Queue Management for Resilient Tactical Networks (CLCQMRTN, pronounced CLICK-martin), previously demonstrated under a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research Program.  The CLCQMRTN system allows efficient delay-tolerant communication between secured and unsecured networks on the Navy’s next-generation Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS).  This award extends SSCI’s ongoing work in a variety of specialized ad hoc networking techniques intended for airborne, man-portable, and unmanned vehicle networks.

The two-year contract is valued at approximately $1 million, including options.  SSCI is supported in this project by the BBN Technologies division of Raytheon.

Interrupted SAR (USAF)

Interrupted SAR (USAF)

 Scientific Systems Company announces that it has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to continue development of their Interrupted Synthetic Aperature Radar Reconstruction algorithms, previously demonstrated under a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research Program.  The intSAR algorithm performs reconstruction of SAR images which contain gaps or interference, allowing image analysts to gain actionable intelligence from data that would otherwise be considered unusable.

 “This is a revolutionary approach to the gapping problem,” said Dr. Les Novak of SSCI.  “This technique has never been applied to SAR data before, but in Phase I, we were seeing results that were comparable to ungapped data.”  The plan for this Phase II SBIR program includes development of a faster, real-time version of the intSAR algorithm which may be embedded on a radar system.

 The two-year contract is valued at approximately $1 million.  SSCI is supported in this project by Boston University and Raytheon Missile Systems.

SSCI Wins $750,000 Air Force SBIR Contract to Develop Open Source Navigation Framework

Program Leverages SSCI Leadership in Developing Intelligent Autonomous Unmanned Systems Technology

WOBURN, MA, Oct. 20, 2009 – Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI), a leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, today announced it has been awarded a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a modular software framework for testing and evaluation of navigation sensors and algorithms. This Small Business Investment Research (SBIR) contract leverages SSCI’s leadership in technology enabling intelligent autonomous land-based and aerial unmanned systems to perform their missions in hostile or challenging environments.

The U.S. Air Force is seeking new precision navigation technologies to augment GPS, with a focus on visual odometry. SSCI will address the need with a testbed to assess multiple combinations of sensor hardware, visual navigation algorithms, and vehicle dynamic models on a level playing field. In addition, the University of Central Florida Computer Vision Laboratory will provide several state-of-the-art egomotion algorithms for initial testing. The resulting technology will enable system integrators to explore the trade space of unmanned vehicles and sensors to achieve a desired level of position and orientation accuracy over various missions.

In order to encourage adoption by sensor manufacturers, the project is being developed in open source format, with code available for download at http://code.google.com/p/functionalnavigation.

According to the government program manager, the technology will be an integral part of the Air Force’s UAV program. Dr. Raman Mehra, Founder & CEO of SSCI, added, “This critical U.S. Air Force development program leverages SSCI’s core competence in sensor, navigation and control technologies in an open-source development environment that will speed the delivery of important new applications.”

SSCI is one of the nation’s top recipients of SBIR contracts. SBIR contracts are designed to stimulate technological innovation and promote the productivity and economic growth of the nation by engaging private enterprise in productive innovation projects for the U.S. government.

About Scientific Systems Company, Inc.

Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) pioneers products and technologies that provide the intelligence for unmanned ground, air and maritime vehicles to autonomously and collaboratively accomplish missions in difficult environments. A leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, SSCI is one of the top 20 recipients of Small Business Innovation Research awards in the U.S. and is recognized by the U.S. Navy and Army for its record of successful technology transitions. A privately held company based in Massachusetts, SSCI collaborates with a network of defense industry prime contractors and consultants, drawing on an accumulated investment of over $150 million in advanced research and development funding.

Contact:
Greg Moeller
(781) 933-5355 x295
gmoeller@ssci.com

Dr. Anthony Tether Joins SSCI Scientific Advisory Board

Former Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Will Help Set SSCI Technology Direction

WOBURN, MA, September 8, 2009 – Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI), a leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, today announced it named Dr. Anthony J. Tether as a member of the SSCI Scientific Advisory Board. One of the world’s leading technologists, Dr. Tether was director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, from June 2001 until February 2009.

“We are honored to have Dr. Tether help SSCI establish a vision and direction for the new technologies we are developing, especially those where we provide intelligent autonomy for unmanned systems performing missions in challenging environments,” said Dr. Raman Mehra, Founder & CEO of SSCI.

Dr. Tether was awarded both the National Intelligence Medal and the Department of Defense Civilian Meritorious Service Medal, and he has served on the Army Science Board, the Defense Science Board, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy Research and Development Committee. Before joining DARPA, Dr. Tether was founder, CEO and president of The Sequoia Group, which provided program management and strategy development services to government and industry from 1996 until 2001. From 1994 to 1996, he served as CEO for Dynamics Technology Inc. and prior to that served in various management positions at Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), Ford Aerospace, Loral, and Systems Control, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

SSCI Advisory Board

At SSCI, Dr. Tether joins a Scientific Advisory Board whose members also include: Dr. Daniel Alspach, former CEO of Orincon Corp.; Dr. Paul Kaminski, former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology; Robert Kohler, former Executive Vice President of TRW’s Avionics and Surveillance Group; Dr. Sanjoy K. Mitter, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Systems at MIT; and Dr. Roger Roberts, former Sr. Vice President of Boeing’s Space and Intelligence Systems Division.

About Scientific Systems Company, Inc.
Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) pioneers products and technologies that provide the intelligence for unmanned ground, air and maritime vehicles to autonomously and collaboratively accomplish missions in difficult environments. A leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, SSCI is one of the top 20 recipients of Small Business Innovation Research awards in the U.S. and is recognized by the U.S. Navy and Army for its record of successful technology transitions. A privately held company based in Massachusetts, SSCI collaborates with a network of defense industry prime contractors and consultants, drawing on an accumulated investment of over $150 million in advanced research and development funding.

Contact:
Greg Moeller
(781) 933-5355 x295
gmoeller@ssci.com

SSCI to Exhibit at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Conference

Intelligent Autonomous Systems Developer (SSCI Booth #129) to Present Technical Paper at Washington, D.C. Conference Aug. 10-13

WOBURN, MA, Aug. 5, 2009 – Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI), a leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, will present a technical paper and meet customers at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2009 conference in Washington D.C. from Aug. 10-13 (Booth #129).

The AUVSI conference is the world’s largest event focusing on the international ground, air and maritime unmanned systems marketplace.  SSCI’s extensive work providing the brains and nervous systems for intelligent unmanned vehicles has been part of numerous pioneering initiatives. Its technology is currently at work in the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Program and numerous other U.S. Department of Defense systems.

About Scientific Systems Company, Inc.
Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) pioneers products and technologies that provide the intelligence for unmanned ground, air and maritime vehicles to autonomously and collaboratively accomplish missions in difficult environments. A leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, SSCI is one of the top 20 recipients of Small Business Innovation Research awards in the U.S. and is recognized by the U.S. Navy and Army for its record of successful technology transitions. A privately held company based in Massachusetts, SSCI collaborates with a network of defense industry prime contractors and consultants, drawing on an accumulated investment of over $150 million in advanced research and development funding.

Contact:
Greg Moeller
(781) 933-5355 x295
gmoeller@ssci.com

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