Sarnoff awarded advanced imagery processing contractPrinceton 14 September 2001 Sarnoff was awarded a $5,219,535 contract for the development of advanced video and imagery processing techniques by the US Department of Defence. It will also investigate the utility of performing these operations on PC-type computing platforms rather than supercomputers.
SARNOFF Corp., Princeton, N.J., was awarded on Sept. 14, 2001, a $5,219,535
cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract for the development of advanced video
and imagery processing techniques to existing processes in the Navy's (command,
control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance) mission package for use aboard joint forces command and control
ships and other command ships and facilities in order to demonstrate utility to
future concepts of operations.
It will also investigate the utility of
performing these operations on PC-type computing platforms rather than
supercomputers. Work will be performed in Princeton, N.J., and is expected to be
completed in December 2002. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the
current fiscal year.
This contract was competitively procured under a broad
agency announcement via the Internet. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington,
Va., is the contracting activity (N00014-01-C-0434).
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