Air Force asks industry to develop real-time signal processing for SIGINT to help intelligence analysts
ROME, N.Y. – U.S. Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop real-time signals intelligence (SIGINT) processing to improve information extraction, identification, analysis, and reporting for U.S. intelligence analysts.
Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., have issued a broad agency announcement (FA8750-21-S-7002) for the SIGINT Solutions For Evolving Scenarios (SSES) project.
Goals include providing situational awareness for worldwide signals and network intelligence sources; sensor data collection and processing with a network-centric approach; identifying processes to understand the adversarial battlespace; and multi-platform/multi-intelligence support to increase blue coalition warfighting capabilities. Researchers seek to provide the warfighter with real-time tools to assess and pinpoint the right decision quickly. Processed information will support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); protect blue coalition forces with command, control, computer, and intelligence applications; and support battlespace awareness for the warfighter.
SIGINT technologies today process information on various communications media, operate in environments in low signal-to-noise ratio areas. and conduct operations against uncooperative targets where the noise types and channel conditions vary frequently from message to message.
As time is critical and ISR mission analyst's workload is high, automating SIGINT collection and processing in tasking and training is a major goal.
This project is divided into three broad technology areas: information extraction, signal processing, and automation enhancements.
Information extraction takes information from a broadband signal to identify and catalog signals of interest. Signal processing enhances the signal to improve processor performance by removing noise and interference in one or more channels. Automation enhancements, meanwhile, focuses on automated signal processing to manipulate the signal of interest for storage and transmission, or to synthesize the signal for a variety of purposes.
Companies interested in participating should email white papers no later than 15 Aug. 2024 to the Air Force's Daniel Robbins at [email protected]. Those interested in participating in 2023 should email white papers by 15 Aug. 2022. Those submitting promising white papers will be invited to submit full proposals.
Email technical questions to Daniel Robbins at [email protected]. Email business questions to the Air Force's Amber Buckley at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/opp/7e077c83c0364b68a3828cc5330d1c87/view.
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