Visibuilding moves forward

Visibuilding is a program inside the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO). "VisiBuilding will develop technology that will re-establish surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities into buildings to perform three main functions:

• Determine building layouts,
• Find anomalous quantities of materials,
• Locate people within the building.

VisiBuilding's approach to this addresses three main areas of technical concentration:

• Phenomenology of signal penetration into buildings,
• Sensor positioning and utilization to maximize information about the building,
• Model-based 3-D building deconvolution that operates in a multipath-rich, diffractive environment."

Science Applications International Corp., (SAIC) has been awarded a $5,270,000.00 cost-plus contract to develop and test the VisiBuilding concept.Work will be performed in San Diego, CA and is to be completed by Aug. 15, 2009. There were 70 bids received.

Sources: As cited and DoD
Photo: STO