From: Kimberly Diane Chang <[email protected]> If you are interested in the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance disposable sensors problem (description below), we have an opportunity for you to learn more about the problem directly from a member of the 7th fleet. Jason Knudson, fleet information warfare officer in the 7th fleet, will be in Palo Alto Feb 28-March 4 and is willing to do a one on one with anyone interested in the ISR problem.
Thank you, Kim _____________________________________________________________ Distributed, Disposable, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (Posted 21 Jan 2016) Challenge: Develop a strategy for buying and using distributed, low-cost, disposable, secure, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance sensors throughout the Navy’s 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility (the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.) Background: The Navy’s 7th fleet has 50-70 ships, 140 aircraft and 40,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. Its area of responsibility covers more than 48 million square miles from the Kuril Islands in the north to the Antarctic in the south, and from the International Date Line to the India-Pakistan border. Maintaining awareness of all submarine, surface ship, and aircraft activity through the 7th Fleet’s 48 million square miles is a daunting challenge even during peacetime. In wartime adversaries can destroy our existing intelligence collection platforms in denied areas. Developing a distributed and disposable air, land, and sea sensor strategy is a key element to operating in a denied environment. Boundaries & Considerations: Sensors must be low cost, disposable, and capable of being produced in large enough numbers to cover key 7th Fleet areas of interest. Sensor array must be capable of persistent operation in the maritime environment (salt, weather, humidity). Strategy should include employment, emplacement, dispersal, and replenishment in an A2/AD environment. Consider environmental & safety factors including hazards to navigation and wildlife. Consider both manned and unmanned systems. Consider, air, sea, undersea, and ground systems. Strategy should include the problem of how to connect, collect, find meaning from, and distribute the information in an A2/AD environment. Include a concept of physical security and cyber-security for these sensors to prevent the use of the sensor network against the host network. (Ex. Tamper resistant, volatile memory, security coded). There are three specific problems that would make good demos Building low cost sensors (Some Navy "disposable" sensors cost $25k each) Connecting sensors and getting data back to a central repository Machine assisted method of finding meaning in the data. Sponsor: U.S. Navy, Commander, 7th Fleet -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
