Offensive Mine Warfare (MIW) Planning and Assessment Software Framework Navy SBIR FY2015.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.1 Topic No.: N151-071 Topic Title: Offensive Mine Warfare (MIW) Planning and Assessment Software Framework Proposal No.: N151-071-0415 Firm: Metron, Inc. 1818 Library Street Suite 600 Reston, Virginia 20190 Contact: Elizabeth Slingerland Phone: (703) 326-2817 Abstract: The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is facing a time when budgets are shrinking as the number of volatile and hostile nations around the world grows. Offensive mining is a potentially low-cost solution that allows the US to apply pressure to hostile nations. Traditional minefields are created using manned delivery platforms that could be used elsewhere in the war effort. New technologies, such as the Advanced Undersea Weapons System (AUWS), will use unmanned vehicles (UxVs) for clandestine placement of sensors and weapons and will provide solutions that blend human and autonomous controls for minefield deployment and activation, and enable precision placement of sensors and mines using onboard GPS coordinate tracking. Current models for planning offensive minefields require human interaction between stand-alone models; this makes it difficult to incorporate new data and replan quickly. Here, Metron proposes to create a new offensive mine planning software solution that will allow for incorporation of outside data and assessment of plans created using stakeholder measures of effectiveness (MOE). Benefits: Congress has passed a multitude of measures to ensure the safety of our citizens, specifically addressing security at our borders and surrounding our critical infrastructure. Two of the commercialization opportunities we are considering are within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Metron has longstanding connections in DHS and its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Coast Guard (USCG) components could benefit from extensions of this software. Our commercialization strategy includes development, licensing, and commercialization of the software framework. This tool will be marketed to CBP as a means of optimizing placement of mobile sensors and reaction assets given terrain, available assets, and migrant flow. We will also seek to market the tool as a means to investigate new capabilities, drive requirements, and aid in MOE development. Metron will market this tool to USCG as a means of optimizing the placement of traditional patrolling assets and autonomous ISR assets in support of their coastal security (enforcing fixed security zones at maritime critical infrastructure and key resources), national defense, drug interdiction, and migrant interdiction missions. Metron will seek to integrate the capabilities of the software framework with existing USCG planning and modeling capabilities. Return