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Title: A--Handheld Multi-Sensor Explosive-Hazard Detection Systems Sol. #: W909MY-15-R-F005 Agency: Department of the Army Office: Army Contracting Command Location: ACC-APG - Washington Posted On: Feb 06, 2015 2:56 pm Base Type: Sources Sought Link: https://www.fbo.gov/notices/a5cb17c64453e90bc0079410b2b3836f
The NVESD Countermine Division, Dismounted Soldier Application Branch is seeking experienced, qualified sources to design handheld multi-sensor explosive-hazard detection systems. The objective is to mature advanced sensor designs and investigate methods to integrate sensor and display components into a lightweight and low cost handheld system that will provide a high probability of detection against the wide range of buried explosive hazard threats. Buried explosive hazards can include landmine threats; deeply buried metallic and non-metallic improvised explosive device (IED) main charges; and triggering mechanisms to include non-metallic conductive components and wires. Design solutions that have a low training burden, are easy to use, can improve the discrimination of targets from clutter, and have improved rates of advance over current multi-sensor handheld detectors are of interest. The Government is seeking sources having previous success in developing multi-sensor handheld explosive hazard detection systems with the capability to discriminate targets from clutter objects. Sources should describe past experience in designing and developing multi-sensor handheld detectors and current capabilities to design and validate integrated multi-sensor solutions.
The Government seeks sources with key competencies to comprehensively meet the following requirements:
- Investigate new ground penetrating radar (GPR) antenna designs
- Investigate electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensor
- Explore methods for detecting wires.
- Investigate and design integrated solutions for tracking the position of all detection sensors during operation.
- Investigate user interface display designs capable of providing additional information on targets encountered and feedback of sensor responses and position
- Investigate techniques for achieving higher signal to noise ratios with all sensor components .
- Explore new detection algorithms making use of enhanced sensor data and positional information.
- Investigate designs to integrate sensor components with positioning sensors
- Validate all sensors, display designs and algorithms ability to detect buried explosive hazard targets of interest.
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