Dynamic tactical targeting

Phillip B. Hanselman; Craig Lawrence; Evan Fortunato; Robert R. Tenney; Erik P. Blasch

doi:10.1117/12.547930

19 July 2004 Dynamic tactical targeting

Phillip B. Hanselman, Craig Lawrence, Evan Fortunato, Robert R. Tenney, Erik P. Blasch

Proceedings Volume 5441, Battlespace Digitization and Network-Centric Systems IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.547930
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Today's Warfighter requires new capabilities that reduce the kill chain timeline. The capability to maintain track on mobile Time Sensitive Targets (TSTs) throughout the entire targeting cycle is a step towards that goal. Continuous tracking provides strike assets with high confident, actionable, targeting information, which reduces the time it takes to reacquire the target prior to prosecution. The Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) Dynamic Tactical Targeting (DTT) program is developing new sensor resource management and data fusion technologies for continuous coordination of tactical sensor resources to detect and identify mobile ground targets and maintain track on these known high-value targets. An essential concept of the DTT approach is the need for the fusion system and the resource manager to operate as part of a closed loop process that produces optimum collection plans against the designated high value TSTs. In this paper, we describe this closed loop approach used within the DTT system. The paper also describes other aspects of the DTT program, including overall program status, the DTT distributed architecture, details of the fusion and dynamic sensor management components, and concludes with current evaluation results.

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Phillip B. Hanselman, Craig Lawrence, Evan Fortunato, Robert R. Tenney, and Erik P. Blasch "Dynamic tactical targeting", Proc. SPIE 5441, Battlespace Digitization and Network-Centric Systems IV, (19 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.547930

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