Thursday, July 9, 2015

Army RFI for Sensor Fusion Development for Helo Pilots

CERDEC U.S.ARMY RDECOM |
Degraded Visual Environments | NVESD
A--Request for Information (RFI) Market Investigation for Sensors Fusion Development - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities

Title:             A--Request for Information (RFI) Market Investigation for Sensors Fusion Development
Sol. #:            W909MY-15-R-C020
Agency:            Department of the Army
Office:            Army Contracting Command
Location:          ACC-APG - Washington
Posted On:         Jul 08, 2015 2:36 pm
Base Type:         Sources Sought
Link:              https://www.fbo.gov/notices/7cc2286c5dbd06dcface2a00a2771863

REQUIREMENTS: 

NVESD desires a system that can meet the needs of the Army Aviation community for pilotage and situational awareness in DVEs. The desired system is a modular open architecture system aligned and compatible with JCA and FACE, and is intended for the legacy fleet. The system must demonstrate the following minimum capability metrics:

Pilotage Capability: 

Pilotage is defined as the process of flying the aircraft from point A to point B, heads up eyes out and visually coupled, which can encompass all phases of flight (en-route, initial approach, hover, landing,
takeoff) in all flight conditions including DVEs (rain, snow, fog, dust, smog/haze, zero illumination night). 

DVE Pilotage system specifications:


Process sensor data from a GFE LWIR camera, Lidar, Radar and aircraft navigation system to produce a fused, geo-registered visualization with less than 48 msec latency. The visualization shall include terrain information from an onboard database (e.g. DTED), and the DAS image sphere. The system shall retain geo-registered sensor data for future visualization of areas that were previously imaged/mapped and are no longer within the Forward FoR, or have become occluded. The system
shall resolve any conflicts between data sets, and shall remove obscurants as much as possible to produce a visualization that focuses on providing the visual cues necessary to fly the aircraft.
  • GFE LWIR camera - 2048 x 2048, 20 bit, 60 Hz
  • GFE Lidar - 150,000 points/sec, geo-rectified points
  • GFE Radar - Expected data rate of 50 MB/sec, format: Lat/Long and altitude

DAS system specifications:

  • Visual acuity: greater than 20/55 in the Forward Field of Regard (+/- 45 degrees), greater than 20/80 elsewhere;
  • Integration Time: less than 8 msec;
  • Field of Regard: Spherical;
  • Display Field of View: Minimum 30 degrees Elevation by 50 degrees azimuth;
  • Display Format: Minimum 1920X1080p;
  • System Latency: less than 48 msec;  

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