Buried Mine Sensing from an Unmanned Air Vehicle

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Buried Mine Sensing from an Unmanned Air Vehicle: The Office of Naval Research (ONR) seeks white papers describing innovative technology concepts to provide standoff detection or indicators of buried mines, mine lines or minefields from an unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Concepts are required to detect mines buried on the beach and in the surf zone (SZ). The environment includes the beach which can alternate between dry and wet conditions due to tides, and the surf zone which extends from the beach out to a water depth of 5 meters. The targets include buried anti-tank and anti-invasion mines. Concepts may include a single sensor technology or multiple sensor technologies to cover different portions of the environment with fusion of the results and on-board real-time processing of imagery and detections. The effort will include basic concept investigations and experiments leading to the development of hardware for a demonstration of the concepts from a manned aircraft. The intention is to initiate new research efforts in FY 2007 with candidate concepts demonstrated in FY 2009 or earlier. ONR encourages teaming of academia, industry, University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), and government laboratories with a view toward speeding the transition of new science and technology into fielded systems. White papers are initially sought to preclude unwarranted effort on the part of the offeror in preparing full technical and cost proposals without an initial assessment of the operational, technical and logistical feasibility of the concept. Offerors submitting the most promising white papers will be encouraged to submit a full technical and cost proposal on all or part of their white paper submission. However, any such encouragement does not assure a subsequent award. Any offeror may submit a full proposal even if its white paper was not identified as promising or if no white paper is submitted. Approximately $8,000,000.00 of Applied Research and Advanced Technology (Budget Category 6.2/6.3) funds are anticipated to be available over a three year period beginning September 2006 to conduct this effort.