Modular Video Interface for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (M-VIISR) Navy SBIR FY2010.3 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2010.3 Topic No.: N103-205 Topic Title: Modular Video Interface for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (M-VIISR) Proposal No.: N103-205-0203 Firm: 21st Century Systems, Incorporated 6825 Pine Street, Suite 141 Omaha, Nebraska 68106-2857 Contact: Amber Fischer Phone: (808) 748-1825 Web Site: www.21csi.com Abstract: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnissance (ISR) systems are diverse, and each one comes with its own interface to process and present imagery to the warfighter. When coupled with the complexities of processing multiple types of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) full motion video, it creates an untenable situation that will only get worse into the future, where the complexity of managing ISR data surpasses the ability to handle it. Ultimately, the system uniqueness wastes the sailor's time, and makes fleet operations less efficient. Due to continuing technology refresh, this problem is not going away on its own, thus, the only recourse is to design a system capable of addressing it. 21st Century Systems, Incorporated proposes the Modular Video Interface for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnissance (M-VIISR) system, which is a secure flexible interface for processing multiple full motion video and metadata streams from UAVs simultaneously, and presenting the results to the operator in a human understandable way. Our expertise with existing modular video input and processing concepts leaves us well prepared to solve the technical problems, and with our unmatched DoD Commercialization Rating, we are also the company most likely to get it into the hands of the warfighter. Benefits: M-VIISR, by being able to handle several types of ISR input simultaneously, in a modular fashion, aims to simplify ISR work in the same manner as DCGS and CIGSS, by providing consistency amongst systems. In addition, the modular design will allow for new hardware, sensors, and standards to be taken into account. Reduced training time and deployment time are also important advantages of a consistent ISR framework for UAV and other sensors. The initial military target market for a product based on this technology would be the NAVAIR's PMA-265 and the F/A-18 Hornet program. Another military target market for a product based on this technology would be the Department of the Navy's PEOSUB, as they are tasked with testing and procuring products/systems to build our undersea platforms. This technology would be invaluable to our subsurface warfighters by bringing numerous sensor modalities together in an easy to use system for tomorrow's advanced photonic masts. The commercial security market could also benefit from the M-VIISR system. ABI Research forecasted that the video surveillance revenue would expand from $13.5 billion in 2006 to $46 billion in 2013, and they have the same kind of proprietary mismash of sensors and standards, as both the commercial and military realms share many of the same standards. A consistent interface will provide many of the same efficiency benefits to commercial vendors as well. 21CSI's well documented successful SBIR commercialization record is a strong indicator of our past success and our motivation to make M-VIISR another successful product. Return