Multi-Model Ensemble Agents (MMEA) Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Topic No.: N05-046 Topic Title: Multi-Model Ensemble Agents (MMEA) Proposal No.: N051-046-0353 Firm: 21st Century Systems, Incorporated 12152 Windsor Hall Way Herndon, Virginia 20170-2359 Contact: Conrad Donahue Phone: (401) 847-5770 Web Site: www.21csi.com Abstract: The challenge of providing the sensor operator and tactical decision maker with all pertinent acoustic information and clues associated with any given contact has long eluded a solution. The technology to address this shortcoming is now available and we are pleased to have this opportunity to propose a method to implement a solution. 21st Century Systems Inc. proposes to leverage its considerable intelligent agent expertise for the development of a leading edge modular software system to manage and execute passive target signature fusion. The research concept, named Multi-Model Ensemble Agents (MMEA), focuses on a method that takes a systems engineering approach to attack the challenge. The ultimate goal of this research is to bring together all of the sensor data/information that is dispersed among several sources into a single presentation. Intelligent agents will be applied to assess every external sensor report and provide the operator with an integrated 2D/3D display of the environmental situation generated with all of the clues that the agents assigned to the searching task have accumulated. The research will focus on a design of software components for the current sensory system to reroute processor outputs to displays that consolidate all information related to any given contact. Benefits: The challenge of providing the sensor operator and tactical decision maker with all pertinent acoustic information and clues associated with any given contact has long eluded a solution. An effective operating scheme would be for an operator to gather all information related to a specific acoustic contact into a single file that could be accessed by a simple U/I request. The technology selected in this project has the potential to break the long standing paradigm for passive Sonar operation in which the software agents conduct an automatic search and control the localization and classification functions by monitoring trackers and performing signal analysis functions. By teaming a skilled operator with intelligent software, the detection, classification and localization process could attain a level of effectiveness that will breathe new life into the passive ASW domain. Return