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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 29,1999 PSA#2484Coastal Systems Station, Dahlgren Division, 6703 W. Highway 98, Panama
City, FL 32407-7001 A -- MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ALGORITHMS SOL N61331-00-Q-1702 DUE
121099 POC Contract Specialist, John Miller, (850) 235-5399;
Contracting Officer, Carol Dreger, (850) 234-4863 WEB:
www.ncsc.navy.mil/contracts/synopsis/syntable.htm, www.ncsc.navy.mil.
E-MAIL: Miller_John@ncsc.navy.mil, Miller_John@ncsc.navy.mil. The Naval
Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Coastal Systems Station,
Panama City, Florida, intends to award a sole-source purchase order to
Lockheed Martin Defense Systems, Syracuse, NY for a continuation of
basic research for the development of unique mathematical and
statistical algorithms for enhancing sonar data, detecting, and
classifying mines in sonar imagery. The Office of Naval Research (ONR)
has requested that the Coastal Systems Station (CSS) adapt the
Lockheed Martin CAD/CAC algorithms to a variety of Mine Reconnaissance
and Minehunting systems and demonstrate the capability over the next
6 years. Two demonstrations are scheduled for the FY00-01 time frame:
one with the AN/AQS-14 helicopter-towed minehunting system, and a
second with REMUS, a minehunting unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) for
the very shallow water (VSW) region. This acquisition is unsuitable
for full and open competition for the following reasons. Lockheed
Martin is uniquely qualified for this effort because they have
developed unique imagery techniques and algorithms designed to greatly
reduce data handling requirements and still permit reliable mine
classification in highly cluttered sonar imagery. The unique
CAD/CAC/Fusion algorithms developed by Lockheed Martin are comprised
of: 1. an adaptive clutter filter for detection that automatically
adjusts its coefficients to new environments 2. an extractor for
classification features related to highlight and shadow characteristics
3. a feature orthogonalizer for transforming a feature set into a new
set that is statistically independent. 4. the Histogram-Based
Generalized Log-Likelihood classifier The Lockheed Martin algorithms
have performed in an exemplary manner to date on limited government
furnished sonar data. Only Lockheed Martin has the unique knowledge
base, the facilities, and the experienced personnel necessary to
successfully conduct the work. The key personnel have invested over
four years in gaining the unique knowledge, insight, and skills
necessary. Additionally, the algorithms developed by Lockheed Martin
represent many work-years under other Lockheed Martin/DOD contracts and
Lockheed Martin's own independent research and development (IRAD). The
algorithms are very sophisticated and require specialized knowledge to
use properly thus another vendor cannot easily or cost-effectively
duplicate them. Contract Specialist: John Miller, Code SP10, Coastal
Systems Station, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, Fl 32407-7001 (850)
235 5399, FAX (850) 234-4251. Posted 11/24/99 (W-SN403501). (0328) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0004 19991129\A-0004.SOL)
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