Navy wants better expeditionary ISR

050612-N-3557N-107 A Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion maneuvers to enter the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) on June 12, 2005. Kearsarge and the embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) are conducting Maritime Security Operations in the Persian Gulf. The Landing Craft Air Cushion, more commonly known as an LCAC, is assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 from Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Norfolk, Va. DoD photo by Airman Christopher A Newsome, U.S. Navy. (Released)

The Navy would like to improve expeditionary ISR for amphibious and irregular warfare, according to an Office of Naval Research presolicitation.

Resource: Read the presolicitation

The capabilities sought include:

• Advanced query capabilities against NoSQL data stores;
• Network statistics on rich graphs;
• Conventional analysis of open source data including complex event recognition;
• Transform and opportunistic learning from open source;
• Actionable empirical models of factional dynamics;
• Level 1 and level 2 fusion applied to complex graphs;
• Calculations of cost functions for predictions from embedded data;
• Complex event detection conditioned by entity pedigree;
• Knowledge-based workflow management;
• Civil information exploitation.

Responses are due by August 28.