APEX: Adaptive and Peripheral surveillance fusion Engine Navy STTR FY2005 Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2005 Topic No.: N05-T019 Topic Title: APEX: Adaptive and Peripheral surveillance fusion Engine Proposal No.: N054-019-0065 Firm: 21st Century Technologies Inc. 4515 Seton Center Parkway Suite 320 Austin, Texas 78759-5731 Contact: James Snyder Phone: (512) 342-0010 Web Site: www.21technologies.com Abstract: It is computationally infeasible to implement a complete Level 2/3-fusion solution that has detailed knowledge of all parts of an area of interest all the time. A staged approach is needed where the first stage implements a real time peripheral vision sensor analysis to identify asymmetric threats. The second stage implements a "foveal vision" sensor analysis that identifies, links and validates asymmetric threats computed in the first stage. In this Phase I effort, named APEX (Adaptive and Peripheral surveillance fusion Engine), The State University of New York at Buffalo and 21st Century Technologies Inc. propose this two stage approach to address the adaptive persistent/persistent surveillance problem.  SUNY Buffalo's persistent surveillance fusion technology, INFERD (Information Fusion Engine for Real-Time Decision Making), contains real time fusion capabilities that flags asymmetric activities of interest by geo-spatial grid. Thus, INFERD acts as a "peripheral vision" capability to the level 2/3 fusion problem. Because INFERD operates at the millisecond level, there is no validation step.  When potentially interesting events are detected by INFERD, 21st Century Technologies' TMODS (Terrorist Modus Operandi Detection System) validates and link activities of interest across multiple geo-spatial coordinates, and if appropriate, forwards the interesting activity to an I&W database. Benefits: APEX technology can be applied to Homeland Security, Financial and Military sectors. Fusion technqiues can be used to identify passsengers that might be a security risk to air flights. Fusion in the financial sectors can be used to bring together political/economic factors that might affect markets. Finally, fusion in the military ssector can provide battlefield situational awareness. A truly Level 2/3 Fusion technique can be used to produce new and novel situational awareness and enemy intent awareness information to the warfighter. Return