Program Manager: Dr. Amy
Kruse
The ability to identify threats from a safe distance is a critical need for today's warfighter. However, binoculars in current operational use have not yet integrated advances in technology and biology that could maximize this capability. The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System Program will bring together and further these technologies to develop soldier-portable visual threat detection devices. These systems will provide greater visual information about a warfighter's surroundings while simultaneously providing tools to initiate an early response when threats emerge.
The system will involve the integration of various disparate areas of technology including, but not limited to—
- Flat-field, wide-angle optics
- Large pixel-count digital imaging
- Cognitive visual processing algorithms
- Ultra-low power analog-digital hybrid signal processing
- Operator neural signature detection processing
- Operator interface system development
The success of this effort will provide
the development and demonstration of
a composite software/human-in-the-loop
system capable of high fidelity detection
with extremely low false alarm rates
without adding additional pack strain
to the warfighter in the field.
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