U.S. Air Force and MDA To Net Sensors

November 2, 2009 by Matthew Potter · 1 Comment
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raytheon sensor integration mda air forceRaytheon was awarded a contract last week to begin prototype development of an architecture to integrate U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) sensors. The contract is only worth $3 million so this idea is only at the very beginning of development. The Air Force operates the strategic space sensors for the United States. MDA has invested in a series of radars and other systems based on sea and land to support their mission. From the sound of it this contract is to see if a system may be built that integrates data from both sets of sensors and displays them together.

This capability exists already but it may not be in one system and may require some interface between humans. This will aid in sorting out targets and perhaps even if it works out get good enough data to support fire control solutions. Of course like with many of these kind of development programs it may prove hard to do.

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ADAPTIVE METHODS AWARDED CONTRACT WITH IWS5B — Press Release

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ADAPTIVE METHODS AWARDED CONTRACT WITH IWS5B

Centreville, VA., June 1, 2009 – Adaptive Methods was awarded a three-year contract and was funded an initial $4.5 million. Adaptive Methods will provide services to the Surface Ship Undersea Warfare (USW) Combat Systems Program Office (IWS5B).

The Company’s goals for the contract are to foster innovative technical solutions to the myriad of USW challenges, to enable the insertion of promising technologies into both new and existing Surface Ship Undersea Warfare combat systems, and to mitigate COTS hardware end-of-life issues by using portable software implementation of improved processing algorithms. The range of work will include system engineering, architecture design, software engineering, algorithm and prototype development, and installation, integration, and test activities.

Work will be performed by personnel from all Adaptive Methods offices including the new Rhode Island office.

Adaptive Methods, headquartered in Virginia with offices in Maryland, Florida, Tennessee, and Rhode Island, is a developer of advanced sensor processing and computing architecture products for surveillance, security, and military combat systems.

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