360 Degree Urban Sniper Warning System Navy SBIR FY2007.3 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2007.3 Topic No.: N07-164 Topic Title: 360 Degree Urban Sniper Warning System Proposal No.: N073-164-0156 Firm: Scientific Applications & Research Assoc., Inc. 6300 Gateway Dr. Cypress, California 90630 Contact: James Hauck Phone: (714) 224-4410 Web Site: www.sara.com Abstract: In recent years, military engagements have moved from the traditional battlefield to urban or suburban settings. In this environment, security patrols are much more likely to encounter an IED or hidden gunman than an organized (or uniformed) squad of soldiers. The urban warfighter needs the capability to detect potential snipers, at a distance, before they shoot. The challenge is to find potential snipers in a cluttered environment where the sniper may be mostly hidden from view except their eyes, &/or a rifle scope, or gun barrel. Complicating this problem may be non-target glints from a wide variety of sources. SARA proposes a common-housing, Multi-sensor approach to Detection, Recognition and Identification of possible snipers, particularly for friendly units moving through an Urban environment. Some COTS elements will complement essential & unique multi-wavelength optical devices, based on SARA's imaging and dazzling technologies. Other inventions include electronics and software for detection and cueing. The MSSF system provides an ever-vigilant 360 degree "coverage" such that when a possible sniper is suspected, the MSSF provides an alarm and an annotated image to the operator. Benefits: There are many instances when it would be desirable to a person, group of people, to those responsible for facilities or equipment to know if they are being investigated. Being shot at is certainly one that occurs in the military scenario, but also is important to political officials, and other important "dignitaries". It is also of interest to know if there is someone surveying a person, group of people, a facility or equipment, when the objective may not be to harm (shoot, set off explosives, etc.), but also to steal valuable property either physically, or by spying and thus finding valuable "Intellectual Property". Thus the detection of eyes, binoculars, monoculars and other surveillance equipment would be of great value to a wide variety of people and institutions with things to protect. Our approach is to provide a set of sensors that can identify not only snipers, but also a wide variety of surveillance equipment that might be looking at a particular location. The optical equipment will provide a database of "glints", which can then be sorted by advanced image processing software to identify the kind of glint that it is: window panes with streetlights, headlights, the sun, unaided eyes, binoculars, rifle scopes, and other surveillance equipment. Return