The Naval Research Laboratory has a requirement for systems that can warn aircrew of hostile fire from small arms, anti-aircraft artillery (AAA), and rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) directed at Navy/Marine Corps rotary wing aircraft. The systems tested will be limited to those that provide real time warning of man-portable surface-to-air and air-to-air threats and that are capable of displaying MWIR imagery to the aircrew for enhanced situational awareness in visually degraded conditions. Systems must be at technology readiness level (6 or greater) and be compatible with the AN/AAR-47 installation. The HFI processor may be a prototype processor that is not yet within the AAR-47 constraints. Metrics for evaluation include, but are not limited to, probability of indication, false indication rate and required sensor frame rates. The test will be a ballistic weapons live fire at Aberdeen Proving Ground anticipated in November 2008. Equipment will be mounted on a platform suspended via a crane approximately one hundred feet above the ground. It is expected that at least two sensors, a data recorder and a real-time processor will be used. All sensors will be located on a common GFE mounting structure along with a GFE LN-251 Inertial Navigation System. The government is also interested in evaluating the performance in the presence of urban background clutter through use of pre-recorded airborne data with inserted flash and tracer signatures. The government will provide updated MWIR flash and tracer signature models such that the contractors can develop algorithms and software ahead of the test.



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