Army 14. 1 Small Business Innovation Research (sbir) Proposal Submission Instructions
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4. Effectiveness of Head Up Display for Driver Performance http://wstiac.alionscience.com/pdf/WQV11N1_ART1.pdf 5. Development of a Night Vision Goggle Heads Up display for Paratrooper Guidance http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a487563.pdf KEYWORDS: Heads Up Display, HUD, See Through, display, Miniature Flat Panel, Head borne, Waveguide, beam combiner, wireless data transfer, HDMI, Ultra wide band, UWB, Wi-Fi Direct, augmented reality, high definition A14-039 TITLE: Standoff technologies for the detection of Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Electronics The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals, their country of origin, and what tasks each would accomplish in the statement of work in accordance with section 5.4.c.(8) of the solicitation. OBJECTIVE: Design and develop techniques to detect emplaced roadside EFPs using vehicular mounted forward-looking active or passive sensor technologies. DESCRIPTION: The roadside environment is often a less homogenous background than that of the adjacent road. Roadways are generally clear of surface clutter but may have varying degree of subsurface stratum. Roadside environments may contain a variety of roadway infrastructure including curbs, signs, sidewalks and unstructured terrain including vegetation, plants, trees and debris. EFP weapons are often camouflaged roadside emplacements within the cluttered roadside environment. Detection of these threats is the focus of this SBIR Topic. PHASE I: The Phase I goal is for a vendor to utilize modeled/simulated data or government furnished data1,2 of EFPs to demonstrate emerging analytical techniques and concepts that extract features unique to EFP targets. The EFP feature concepts and techniques must be leveraged in Phase II, e.g. range, intensity, texture, RCS, etc., and must be documented for and demonstrated to government Subject Matter Experts. Fully autonomous algorithms are not required during this Phase I. The Phase I final report must contain a full description of the EFP surrogate target(s), sensor data, and description of and rationale for the features chosen and identified taking into consideration concealing foliage and camouflage. The report must also provide recommendations of feature(s) for further investigation. PHASE II: The Phase II goal is to prototype autonomous algorithms for detecting and tracking EFPs. These algorithms must be implemented with either the target or sensor in transit. The techniques/algorithms used and sensor data will be provided to the Government for evaluation. The vendor’s Phase II final report must include algorithm performance estimates for terrain and vegetation conditions resident within the datasets. The report must also include recommendations for algorithm improvements. PHASE III/CPP: The Phase III goal is to further develop the techniques or algorithms from the Phase II effort to a mature state, proof of technological feasibility, such that they can be implemented in a real time detection system with potential fielding through the normal DoD acquisition process. Products might lead to enhanced commercial mounted avoidance scanning systems for automobiles or possibly as track ballast and throughway inspection systems for trains on railways. DoD applications might include sensor technology for a wide range of side attack threat munitions detection. REFERENCES: 1. Government furnished forward looking ground penetrating radar (GPR) dataset from YPG Data Collect, 2005. 2. Government furnished acoustic dataset from APH Data Collect, 2012. 3. S. Schmerwitz, H.-U. Doehler, K. Ellis, S. Jennings, “Millimeter-wave data acquisition for terrain mapping, obstacle detection, and dust penetrating capability testing, ” Proc. SPIE 8402, Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics V, June 2011. 4. M. Busch, J. M. Keller, P. D. Gader, "A scale-space approach to detect a class of side-attack landmine from SWIR video sequences," Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets X, Orlando, FL, April 2006. 5. M. R. Bradley, T. R. Witten, M. Duncan, R. McCummins, "Anti-tank and side-attack mine detection with a forward-looking GPR," Proc. SPIE 5414, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets IX, 421, September 2004. 6. D. Anderson, K. Stone, J. Keller, J. Rose, “Anomaly Detection Ensemble Fusion for Buried Explosive Material Detection in Forward Looking Infrared Imaging for Addressing Diurnal Temperature Variation,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 8357, 83570T, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVII, Baltimore, MD, April 2012. 7. B. Remesch, J. Cathcart, “Spectral Analysis of Terrain Infrared Signatures,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 8357, 83571O, Detection of Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVII, 2006. 8. J. Malof, K. Morton, L. Collins, P. Torrione, “Processing Forward-Looking Data for Anomaly Detection: Single-Look, Multi-Look, and Spatial Classification,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 8357, 83570T, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVII, Baltimore, MD, April 2012. KEYWORDS: Target detection, explosively formed penetrator (EFP), algorithm development A14-040 TITLE: Secure DIB 1.3 Query Service for Redaction and Fine Grained Access Control TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Information Systems ACQUISITION PROGRAM: PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals, their country of origin, and what tasks each would accomplish in the statement of work in accordance with section 5.4.c.(8) of the solicitation. OBJECTIVE: Develop a framework for a secure, standards based Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) solution that is capable of dynamically redacting and filtering data within the DIB Query Service (1.3 and later) SOAP endpoint and is interoperable with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Dial-Tone, Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Directory Information Base (DIB), and Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) architectures. DESCRIPTION: The current DCGS-A systems were built to provide best in class data services at the time and are in need of architecture enhancements to support current guidance. The current deployed DIB systems lack identity and attribute awareness, leaving DCGS-A with systems that have constricted security boundaries. These boundaries impair a warfighter’s ability to use information resources beyond the user’s immediate visibility, awareness, or access. To comply with Intelligence Community (IC) Directives, DCGS-A requires the capability to redact and filter federated data within the DIB (1.3 and later) Query Service SOAP endpoint, in a manner that allows the re-use of existing deployed architectures to the greatest extent possible and supports information-sharing efforts, actionable intelligence, and use of new and emerging IT technologies (e.g. cloud and shared computing services). In the fielded system, it is currently not possible to redact or filter information accessed within the DIB Query Service SOAP endpoint. A standards-based ABAC solution would take in attributes and access control policies and return only data that the entity is allowed to see. Solution architecture for this effort will incorporate SOAP Dial-Tone, Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO) DIB architectures, and DCGS-A’s fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) mechanisms. This solution will address Intelligence Community Directive 501 (ICD 501) The Discovery and Dissemination or Retrieval of Information within the Intelligence Community, ICD 503 Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, Certification and Accreditation, and other relevant DoD/IC guidance and net centric requirements. The solution will leverage IC security markings maintained by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)/Controlled Access Program Coordination Office (CAPCO) and XML Data Encoding Specification for Information Security Marking Metadata V9 (ISM.XML.V9) 17 July 12. Previous efforts to be leveraged include DMO’s DIB 2.0 PL3 certification and the DMO DIB 1.3 Redaction demonstration to support architecture and system development design goals. PHASE I: Prepare a feasibility study for a framework solution that can redact and filter data elements for Product Retrieval and Dissemination within SOAP-based DIB (1.3 and later) Query Service, accessible through DCGS-A ABAC architecture. This framework will support Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Army (513), with the Army as the producer node. The attribute store will be setup in the consumer node. The Army node will setup a trust between the consumer and producer Secure Token Service (STS). PHASE II: Using the resulting materials and/or designs from Phase I, develop Integrated Master Schedule with resource allocation and assemble a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the solution. Benchmark and identify production tasks, system throughput, scaling of capabilities, use of identity, policies, attributes, management of policies, management of attributes and auditing for production. Use the resulting prototype to support an Interoperability Demonstration Pilot. PHASE III: Operationalize the dissemination of the solution within DCGS-A and DIB. Prepare the roadmap to guide related efforts and support accreditation. DUAL USE COMMERCIALIZATION: Military Application: Transition capability into current ABAC-based solution to support secure near real-time collaboration with DCGS-A and other entities. Commercial Application: Companies with need to protect sensitive data while collaborating in interoperable environments, including healthcare, banking, and other industries. REFERENCES: 1. PMO DCGS-A # KPP1 TIN: Net Ready KPP 2. PMO DCGS-A # Interoperability-0002 TIN: Joint common components 3. PMO DCGS-A # Security-0334 TIN: Appropriate user access 4. PMO DCGS-A # Security-0226 TIN: Access across multiple domains 5. PMO DCGS-A # Security-0228 TIN: Downgrade, sanitize, redact data products 6. PMO DCGS-A # Security-0231 TIN: DIACAP compliance 7. PMO DCGS-A # Security-0232 TIN: Mobile IdAM solution [log into any LAN client] 8. PMO DCGS-A # Security-0236 TIN: Allied/Coalition access control KEYWORDS: ABAC based solution, Secure collaboration, interoperability, DIB, IdAM A14-041 TITLE: A LIDAR for Mapping Dense Aerosols TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Electronics The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals, their country of origin, and what tasks each would accomplish in the statement of work in accordance with section 5.4.c.(8) of the solicitation. OBJECTIVE: The objective is to develop a scanning lidar to measure the spatial evolution of dense obscurant clouds (one way transmission 0.25%) with high temporal and spatial resolution. The system should be capable of measuring an obscurant concentration point cloud contained in a 10x10x10 meter measurement volume with sample spacing of 1/5 meters and a total 3D cloud update rate of 1Hz. This measurement scenario supports the development of advanced obscurants and methods to disseminate them effectively DESCRIPTION: Smoke and obscurants play a crucial role in protecting the Warfighter by decreasing the electromagnetic energy available for the functioning of sensors, seekers, trackers, optical enhancement devices and the human eye. Recent advances in materials science now enable the production of precisely engineered obscurants with nanometer level control over particle size and shape. Numerical modeling predicts that order of magnitude increases over current performance levels are possible if high aspect-ratio conductive particles can be effectively disseminated as an unagglomerated aerosol cloud. The high efficiency of these materials makes field evaluation a challenge. One dissemination mechanism packages the material into a grenade and functions one or more units for personal, vehicle or even wide area screening. During the first few seconds of an event, the obscurant cloud is optically dense and rapidly evolving. A non-invasive means to determine concentration over time and space would be an invaluable tool for obscurant development. Lidar systems have been used to successfully characterize obscurant clouds (Uthe) during military obscurant testing. While these systems did not have the spatial resolution needed for current testing, lessons learned from evaluating dense obscurant clouds and multiple scattering are relevant for this effort. More recently, scanning lidar systems have been proposed for situational awareness during degraded visual environment (DVE) scenarios (Xiaoying). Obscurants and Chemical / Biological clouds are aerosols. Lidars can be used for detection and evaluation of any aerosol cloud. The obscurant clouds are a more difficult case because they are optically dense. This is the reason for the topic: no lidar has been developed with the capability to penetrate an obscurant aerosol and map the density profile of the cloud. The high resolution required along the line of site requires a high speed detector and digitizer. Currently available electronics do not have the dynamic range to measure the round trip transmission through the obscurant cloud. This challenge could be mitigated by transmitting multiple pulses along each line of site through the cloud; however the need to scan a 3D point cloud limits the number of pulses that can be combined for each line of site. Using multiple apertures or changing other lidar parameters over a small number of pulses are possible methods to solve this problem. Another method for cloud penetration is to use a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum where the material is less efficient. Unfortunately, obscurant materials are typically broadband and are being developed to cover all portions of the electromagnetic spectrum of military interest. Thus, other techniques will need to be developed to achieve the required dynamic range. PHASE I: Design a lidar system that map the 3D concentration of an evolving obscurant cloud in a 10x10x10 meter volume. The design should address the dynamic range needed to measure path transmittance though the cloud of 0.25% or less while maintaining high spatial resolution inside the cloud. PHASE II: Fabricate, test and demonstrate a LIDAR system that meets the specifications described in Phase I. This prototype system will take the laboratory designed system and hardware and package it into a fieldable unit. Housing for this unit should be weatherproof to withstand conditions in an outdoor environment. In addition to fabricating a prototype unit, the contractor with thoroughly test it alongside Army personnel at the Army's Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC) test range. Standard Military smokes and obscurants will be used to evaluate the prototype instruments performance. A final report shall be produced by contractor using data provided by the Army on the various aerosol clouds dispensed. Prepare a cost estimate for building the system in quantity. PHASE III: The lidar system developed in this program can be used by research and development organizations and test ranges to evaluate obscurant munitions and devices. It has application in other DoD interest areas including chemical and biological detection, aircraft landing aids, meteorology and pollution control. Industrial applications could be very similar to these. REFERENCES: 1. Bohren, C.F.; Huffman, D.R.; Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles; Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1983. 2. E. E. Uthe, "Lidar Evaluation of Smoke and Dust Clouds," Appl. Opt. vol. 20, p 1503 (1981). 3. E. E. Uthe and J. M. Livingston. “Lidar Extinction Methods Applied to Observations of Obscurant Events,” Appl. Opt. vol. 25, no. 5, p 678 (1986). 4. Xiaoying Cao; Roy, G.; Roy, S.; Trickey, E., "Assessment of Helicopter Brownout with a Scanning Lidar," Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,2, 6-11 May 2011. 5. J. A. Weinman, “Derivation of Atmospheric Extinction Profiles and Wind Speed over the Ocean from a Satellite-Borne Lidar,” Appl. Opt, 27 (19), pp. 3994-4001 (1988). KEYWORDS: Lidar, aerosol concentration, dynamic range, obscurants, multiple scattering A14-042 TITLE: A Novel Method for Creating Microshear to Aerosolize Packed Powders TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Materials/Processes The technology within this topic is restricted under the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which controls the export and import of defense-related material and services. Offerors must disclose any proposed use of foreign nationals, their country of origin, and what tasks each would accomplish in the statement of work in accordance with section 5.4.c.(8) of the solicitation. OBJECTIVE: To develop a concept which produces microshear to efficiently separate and disseminate fine powders that are densely packed within a container. Concepts should address material agglomeration issues that arise with optimized packing densities. A systematic study of the forces necessary to overcome binding effects of the materials could be developed along with mathematical modeling to support separation concepts. This problem is compounded by the fact that in general, high packing densities are employed to maximize the yield of obscurant devices. Improved methods to separate these highly compressed materials are needed. DESCRIPTION: Smoke and obscurants play a crucial role in protecting the Warfighter by decreasing the electromagnetic energy available for the functioning of sensors, seekers, trackers, optical enhancement devices and the human eye. Recent advances in materials science now enable the production of precisely engineered obscurants with nanometer level control over particle size and shape. Numerical modeling predicts that order of magnitude increases over current performance levels are possible if high aspect-ratio conductive particles can be effectively disseminated as an unagglomerated aerosol cloud. Recent history demonstrates that when these designer particles are packed into a center-burster grenade configuration, obscuration performance can decrease by more than an order of magnitude, canceling the performance increases inherent in the particles. There is clearly no mechanism in the present design that acts to separate particles from one another. That is the need. In the classic center-burster configuration used by the Army for grenades, it is speculated that the shock wave provides no aid in deagglomeration (and may, in fact, contribute to agglomeration) because it passes through the confined material before aerosolization begins. The container is ruptured by the shock wave, but only after it has passed through the fill material. Consequently, an entirely new concept design may be required to take advantage of the energy contained in the shock wave and/or of the compact storage of energy in explosives of any sort. The modeling of explosives and resultant shock waves is still in development. Classic treatment of the phenomenon does not take into account the extreme temperatures, pressures and velocities, resulting in erroneous calculations. More accurate methods should be considered. PHASE I: Demonstrate, with modeling or other means, a concept that will create forces to separate anisotropic particles when disseminated. Demonstrate by electronic means or in the laboratory how the concept works. Estimate the separation efficiency possible. The Army is interested in a device the size of a Coke can, although any size can be used to demonstrate the concept in Phase I. Anisotropic powders to consider for demonstration purposes include fine metal or graphite flakes. PHASE II: Prepare devices that will demonstrate the mechanism. Provide 5 such items to ECBC for measurement of separation efficiency achieved. In Phase II, a design of a manufacturing process to commercialize the concept should be developed. Present grenades used for disseminating fine powders achieve roughly a 30% packing efficiency, a 40% dissemination efficiency and can reduce the extinction efficiency of the material (through agglomeration and destruction or modification) of the particles by 50%. This results in a total efficiency of about 6%. The goal of this effort should be to double that number. Consider how the design would change to effectively disseminate microfibers of graphite or metal. PHASE III: The techniques developed in this program can be integrated into current and future military obscurant applications. Improved grenades and other munitions are needed to reduce the current logistics burden of countermeasures to protect the soldier and his equipment. This technology could have application in other DoD interest areas including high explosives, fuel/air explosives and decontamination. Improved separation techniques can be beneficial for all powdered materials in the metallurgy, ceramic, pharmaceutical and fuel industries. Industrial applications could include metal hardening, metal cladding, seismic exploration, destruction of hazardous waste and welding. REFERENCES: 1. Bohren, C.F.; Huffman, D.R.; Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles; Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1983. 2. Schwarz, R.B.; Kasiraj, P.; Vreeland T.; Ahrens, T.J.; A Theory for the Shock-Wave Consolidation of Metal Powders; Acta Matall., Vol 32, pp. 1243-1252.
A14-043 TITLE: Development of Phage-Quantum Dot Based Diagnostic Tools for Biological Agents TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Chemical/Bio Defense OBJECTIVE: Development of a novel platform for the detection/diagnosis of biological agents harnessing the specificity of attachment of phage to bacteria and the sensitivity of Quantum Dot (QD) nanocrystals. DESCRIPTION: An ideal detection/diagnosis technology/platform would have the following desirable properties: the potential for rapid, high-sensitive (detection at very low concentrations of the agent), high-specific (high true positive/true negative and low false-positive/low false-negative) detection of agents of interest in a low background interference. Also, the platform to conduct the assays should be user-friendly, portable and include a point of care or field device that is capable of detecting multiple agents simultaneously in a high throughput manner in any matrix type (clinical or environmental). Additionally, it is highly desirable to have a flexible technology amenable for a plug and play format to develop new assays rapidly and above all, the technology should be inexpensive to manufacture and operate. Currently, there are two general paradigms in bioagent detection: protein based immunodiagnostics and nucleic acid based PCR diagnostics. Although numerous current technologies address many of the desired characteristics, none of the existing technologies/platforms meet all these requirements. For example, some immuno diagnostics technologies based on Lateral Flow Immunoassay are rapid and inexpensive, user-friendly and field deployable but lack sensitivity, have high background issues and almost always needs confirmatory assays from another technology. The nucleic acid based assays are rapid, easy to develop and relatively user-friendly and field deployable but lack multiplexing and high throughput and may have background (false positive) issues and interference issues from some matrix types. |