Stadium™

Multi sensor resource manager that provides emplacement, search planning and resource coordination from force to unit level.

Military (Army, Navy, Air Force), State Department (embassies), Municipality (vehicle traffic management), Airport (Air Traffic Control), and Weather (storm tracking) managers have a need to maximize sensor-based threat detection to determine courses of action. This need includes full-area sensor resource coordination and re-allocation to reduce utilization and provide the best opportunity to identify threats. Stadium is a powerful resource manager software tool that serves as a high-speed, accurate planner and tasker that provides four key sensor actions: Placement, Search Pattern Planning, Load Spreading and Dynamic Real-Time Updating

Stadium achieves three primary objectives to optimize system-level performance of heterogeneous sensor types:

• 1: Computes optimal emplacement or operating areas in order to best achieve early detection, discrimination, and fire control quality timelines.
• 2: Computes optimal search sectors for emplaced sensors in order to maximize coverages of the highest priority spatial volumes.
• 3: Tasks sensors to balance duty cycles among multiple sensors.

Stadium performs these objectives with efficiencies that enable dynamic adaptation during battle. For emplacement/operating areas and search sector determination, Stadium exploits a prioritized mapping of the space over an operating area, spatial masks that capture each sensor’s capabilities and threat intelligence, and a rapid binary classifier technique that optimizes high priority space. For sensor tasking, innovative algorithms ensure each sensor performs the most productive tasks while minimizing over-loading. Once battle begins, search sectors dynamically adapt to observed enemy patterns while maintaining the original intelligence. Search volumes automatically resize, and new sensors can be added in real-time, and degraded sensors accounted for. Coverage metrics allow the user to compare multiple plans.

While the planning phase places the force structure in the best possible position with respect to the available a priori information, any planning approach that assumes the adversary will behave exactly as expected is naïve, and will rarely provide truly optimal performance. Therefore, during the adjustment phase (concurrent with execution), Stadium updates the plan to reflect the adversary’s observed behavior and improves overall performance real time. In this way, the accuracy of the scenario picture is continually improving based on the most recent sensor data. Together, the three phases of Stadium place the warfighter in the most advantageous position, affording the most efficient response, and provides the most accurate picture.

Stadium is a rapid, dynamic sensor planner and tasker that optimizes emplacement and operating areas, search sectors, and sensor tasking for one or more heterogeneous sensor types. Stadium Benefits include: