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Summary:
This 3-day course addresses System Engineering aspects associated with Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) programs and missions as such pertains to a tactical scenario. Application to security, target acquisition and tracking, terminal guidance for weapon systems, and seamless integration of distributed sensor heterogeneous systems with intuitive situational display is provided. The course is designed for the lead engineers; systems engineers, researchers, program managers, and government directors who desire a framework to solve the competing objectives relating to ISR & security missions relating to regional force protection, asset monitoring, and/or targeting. The course presents an overview of tactical scale ISR systems (and missions), requirements definition and tracking, and provides technical descriptions relating to underlying sensor technologies, ISR platform integration (e.g., UAV-based sensor systems), and measures of system performance with emphasis on system integration & test issues. Course objectives are to: (1) familiarize the audience with the difficulties associated with current ISR systems (and missions), (2) provide the student with an effective system-of-systems architectural approach to ISR for tactical applications, (3) address real ISR systems, and (3) provide an assessment of state-of-the-art capability, including addressing the emergent standards associated with ISR components. Examples are given throughout the conduct of the course to allow for knowledgeable assessment of sensor systems, ISR platform integration, data exfiltration and network connectivity, along with discussion of the emerging integration of sensors with situational analyses (including sensor web enablement), application of open geospatial standards (OGC), and attendant enabling capabilities (consideration of sensor modalities, adaptive processing of data, and system "impact" considerations). Due to classification considerations, strategic and classified ISR aspects are not presented within this course to maintain open enrollment.
Instructor:
Timothy D. Cole has developed sensor & data exfiltration solutions employing EO/IR sensors with augmentation using low-cost wireless sensor nets. He has worked several sensor system programs that addressed ISR including military-based cuing of sensors, intelligence gathering, first responders, and border protection. Mr. Cole holds multiple degrees in Electrical Engineering as well as in Technical Management. He has been awarded the NASA Achievement Award and was a Technical Fellow at Northrop Grumman. He has authored over 25 papers associated with ISR sensors, signal processing, and modeling.
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What You Will Learn:
How to analyze and implement ISR & security concerns and requirements with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art ISR system response.
- Understanding limitations and major issues associated with ISR systems, including effective coordination of sensor modalities, sensor net C2, rapid data product dissemination, and system evaluation
- What is important to the system and how to measure such
- Quality of measurement and timeliness of object detection, tracking, and identification
- Consideration of false alarms, probability of detection, and coordination of system operations and product dissemination
- ISR & security requirement development and tracking pertaining to tactical ISR systems, how to audit top-level requirements to system element implementations
- Sensor technologies and evaluation techniques for sensor modalities including: imagers (EO/IR), radar, laser radar, and other sensor modalities associated with tactical ISR missions; how do these modalities operate, how well do they support ISR, quantification and characterization of performance
- Data communications architecture and networks; how to manage the distributed ISR assets and exfiltrate the vital data and data products to those that require such (actionable timeliness)
- ISR system design objectives and key performance parameters (KPPs); end-to-end evaluation approach and examples
- Situational analyses and associated common operating display approaches; how best to interact with human decision makers
- Integration of multi-modal data to form comprehensive situational awareness; use of differing sensor data to construct a comprehensive assessment of current conditions and trends
- Emerging standards associated with sensor integration and harmonization afforded via sensor web enablement technology; the arrival of internet (IP) based capabilities and large array of solutions vying for integration and "use" standardization
- Examples of effective tactical ISR systems
- Tools to support evaluation of ISR components, systems, requirements verification (and validation), and effective deployment and maintenance; how to gauge responsiveness to design requirements and insure continued performance under varying situations with time.
- Modeling & simulation approaches to ISR requirements definition and responsive ISR system design(s); how to evaluate aspects of an ISR system prior to deployment and even prior to element development – how to find the ISR "gaps".
Course Outline:
Day 1
- Overview of ISR systems, including definitions, approaches, and review of existing unclassified systems
- Requirement development, tracking, and responsive design implementation(s)
- Real-time data processing functionality
- Data communication systems for tactical ISR
- ISR functionality: Target acquisition and tracking, including ATR, Target classification, Targeting systems (e.g., laser-guided ordnance)
- Tactical ISR asset platforms: Air-based (includes UAVs), Ground-based, Vehicle-based
Day 2
- Sensor technologies, capabilities, evaluation criteria, and modeling approach: Electro-optical imagers (EO/IR), Radar (including ultrawideband, UWB), Laser radar, Biochemical sensing, Acoustic monitoring, Ad hoc wireless sensor nodes (WSN)
- Application of sensor modalities to ISR: Tagging, tracking & Locating targets of interest (TTL), Non-cooperative target identification (NCID)
- Concurrent operation and cross-correlation of ISR sensor data products to form comprehensive evaluation of current status
Day 3
- Test & Evaluation approach
- Human Systems Integration and Human Factors Test & Evaluation
- Modeling & Simulation of ISR system performance
- Service Oriented Architectures and IP Convergence: Sensor web enablement, Use of metadata, Sensor harmonization, Re-use and cooperative integration of ISR assets
- Situational analysis and display: Standardization, Heuristic manipulation of ISR system operation and dataflow/processing
- Case studies: Tactical ISR system implementation and evaluation
Tuition:
Tuition for this three day course is $1690 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ATI@ATIcourses.com.
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