DCS awarded Navy ISR contract

A boy watches as Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Sass, assigned to Riverine Squadron 3, performs a biometrics scan on a fisherman on the Watah peninsula, near Rawah, Iraq. Riverine units are actively engaged in waterborne operations in Anbar province to update census details, improve security and deter insurgent activity.

DCS has been awarded a contract to support ISR research at the Naval Research Laboratory.

Under the five-year Enhanced Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Sensor and System Capability Development contract, “DCS will conduct research that will ultimately provide a capability to reduce intelligence analyst workloads, enhance operator efficiency through reduced detection times, and enhance the capability to detect and track small high-value targets in cluttered environments,” according to a company news release.

“The detection and tracking of targets of interest will be accomplished by combining soft biometrics data with human detection, segmentation algorithms and machine learning,” DCS said.