Navy seeks sensor for IR threat classification

Seaman Jennifer Pastor stands watch at the Surface Electronics Emission Console in the combat information center aboard the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge. The SLQ-32 is an anti-ship defense system. Blue Ridge is the flagship for the U.S. 7th Fleet.

The Navy is looking for an infrared detection system that can classify threats.

The fleet has several different thermal imaging devices and sensor systems that can track an IR signature already, but none of them can identify the threat level of the designated target, according to the Small Business Innovation Research solicitation.

Resource: Read the SBIR solicitation

The Navy envisions software that can identify a threat from data collected by existing IR sensors, with a low false alarm rate.