Integrated Situational Awareness and Countermeasures
Abstract
DoD helicopters currently use a federated architecture of sensors and countermeasures to protect themselves against guided and unguided hostile threats while simultaneously avoiding collisions with the ground and other obstacles. These sensors typically provide the pilot with a separate display of radar, radar warning, missile warning or off-board communications to guide the pilot in selecting automatic or manual countermeasures against radar, laser, or radio frequency guided threats. These un-fused sensors create a serial information stream which can induce an inadequate response to the threat. These federated systems consume weight, space, and power which are at a premium in small platforms. The initial goal of this project is to fuse multiple functions such as missile detection and countermeasures, hostile fire detection, navigation in visually degraded environments, and active search using optical detection into a one or two aperture device with a single integrated display to produce improved situational awareness. Subsequent efforts of this joint service government/contractor team will assess integration of multi-platform sensor fusion using RF and laser data-links to create cross-platform shared situation awareness among a section or division of helicopters or UAV’s which is more complete than a single platform warning/tracking systems. Such efforts will be proven in a series of RASE, bringing sensors and shooters together in a collaborative learning environment using live fire with a variety of weapons and environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 9d730e52069a7f5c5eed3e23c1f54a47