CORNERSTONE RESEARCH GROUP INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF193-CSO1

Description

The U.S. Air Force requires new Base Defense capabilities for Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) and Cruise Missile Defense (CMD) applications. Recent experiments conducted by the DoD have shown the potential of new High Energy Laser (HEL) and High Power Microwave (HPM) weapons for threat mitigation, but the long response time during the detection, tracking, and identification stage limits the effectiveness of these defeat systems, especially against high velocity threats. Specific bottlenecks that slow response time include the chain of command and number of human interactions, manual prioritization and cueing of multiple threats, and the ability to transform target position into easily actionable parameters for use by a defeat system. CRG and its partner propose to demonstrate a unique C-UAS software suite that provides automatic target classification, video tracking, and threat prioritization to automate the C-UAS detect-identify-defeat process. CRG and its partner will perform multiple experiments to identify operator needs and perform multiple software development iterations to improve the software and speed up the kill chain. This approach is flexible and can be adapted to both C-UAS and CMD applications.