The Science: Business Areas
Air and Missile Defense
Numerica's state-of-the-art network-centric tracking solutions such as Multiple Frame Assignment (MFA), Multiple Hypothesis Correlation (MHC), and various other Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) system adaptations effectively and reliably integrate data from air and missile targets in real time. And accurate real-time information can make a life-saving difference on the battlefield.
C2BMC
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) protects United States territories, as well as those of our allies, against ballistic missile attack, whether accidental, unauthorized or deliberate. In an effort to continually enhance the Ballistic Missile Defense System and stay ahead of emerging threats, MDA created the Missile Defense National Team (MDNT), which is a collaboration of defense industry leaders, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics and Raytheon – among others. Numerica is proud to support the MDNT through our development of the Multiple Hypothesis Correlator (MHC) and the BMDS Launch Event Associator (BLEA) under the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program.
The C2BMC is the force multiplier that links, integrates, and globally synchronizes individual missile defense systems to provide an optimized, layered missile defense against threats of all ranges and in all phases of flight. Numerica-developed MHC and BLEA play important roles in each MDA C2BMC by providing key decision makers the real-time information they need for advanced situational awareness.
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IBCS
Numerica's MFA tracking approach works exceptionally well for distributed tracking applications, such as the U.S. Army's Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) program. Numerica was chosen as a technology partner and track-management expert by IBCS prime contractor Northrop Grumman. Numerica's MFA tracking software will serve as the core of the Track Manager module for IBCS. Phase II of the contract was awarded to Northrop Grumman in January 2010.
AFTS
The Advanced Fusion and Tracking System (AFTS) is a state-of-the-art, Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) track management system that easily connects sensors to provide a reliable, robust, real-time Single Integrated Picture using true multi-sensor fusion. Powered by Numerica's MFA tracking software, AFTS provides customers a flexible, scalable and cost effective way to integrate the track picture of several sensors. The AFTS is available from Ultra Electronics – Advanced Tactical Systems.
In addition to developing track management solutions for the C2BMC and IBCS programs, as well as the AFTS product, Numerica's Air and Missile Defense technical team tackles a variety of difficult and interesting R&D challenges in related areas, including sensor and communications resource management, battle management, bias estimation and information fusion.