What is the PET
program?
The Productivity Enhancement and Technology
Transfer
(PET)
Program is responsible for gathering and deploying the best
ideas, algorithms, and software tools emerging from the national high
performance computing infrastructure into the DoD user community
located at the Major Shared Resource Centers (MSRC), the Distributed
Centers (DCs), and at DoD remote locations. With respect to the Signal
and Imaging Processing component:
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"The
Signal/Image Processing (SIP) CTA
covers the extraction of useful
information from sensor outputs in real time. DoD applications include
surveillance, reconnaissance, intelligence, communications, avionics,
smart munitions, and electronic warfare. Sensor types include sonar,
radar, visible and infrared images, and signal intelligence (SIGINT)
and navigation assets.
Typical signal processing functions include
detecting, tracking classifying, and recognizing targets in the midst
of noise and jamming. Image processing functions include the generation
of high-resolution low-noise imagery and the compression of imagery for
communications and storage. The CTA emphasizes research, evaluation,
and test of the latest signal processing concepts directed toward these
embedded systems.
Usually such processors are aboard deployable
military systems and hence require hefty packaging, minimum size,
weight, and power. System affordability is expected to improve an order
of magnitude through the development of scalable codes running on
flexible HPC systems. This will enable the traditional expensive
military-unique 'black boxes' required to implement high-speed
signal/image processing to be replaced by COTS HPC-based equipment." |
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