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National Security
Sensor and Data Fusion (NSSDF)
Early Career Award
The Early Career Award (ECA) goes
to individuals demonstrating technical and leadership achievements
impacting U.S. defense, intelligence, and homeland security with contributions of
valuable service to the MSS National Security Sensor and Data Fusion
(NSSDF) session areas. It recognizes those early career scientists and
engineers researching, developing, and operationalizing advancements within the
sensor, data, information, and
knowledge fusion scientific domain. Goals in granting this award are to
encourage individual and collaborative efforts, accelerate development of early
career professionals, and foster increased participation in NSSDF by
recognizing talent.
Nominees must have 20 years or
less of professional and / or academic experience as detailed on their CV /
resume to be eligible. The MSS NSSDF Committee welcomes submissions for
the 2025 Early Career Award using the nomination form (found in the files section below). Completed packages
(nomination form, candidate CV / resume, and letters of reference) are due no later than 1 August 2025, 11:59 PM EDT to
mss@anavationllc.com.
Any questions regarding the submission process may be directed there as well.
We look forward to your
participation in the ECA process and your assistance recognizing our first
Early Career Awardee for NSSDF at the 2025 Joint (BAMS and NSSDF) Conference.
Battlespace Acoustic, Seismic, Magnetic, and Electric-Field Sensing and Signatures Committee (BAMS)
Previously the ARL sponsored Acoustics Meeting, the BAMS specialty group joined IRIS in 1997 and began its evolution into the Military Sensing Symposium. The BAMS specialty group provides a mixed forum for unclassified distribution C and a SECRET level classified material focused on exploitation of mechanical wave (acoustic and seismic) and field strength (electric, magnetic, and gravitational) sensors to support military and homeland security applications. Beginning with theory, modeling and simulation, the group treats source and background phenomenology, propagation, noise mechanisms, detection, processing and interpretation. Signal and Information processing areas covered include beamforming, target detection and tracking algorithms, noise reduction, target identification, and fusion of inputs from multiple sensors and sensor/data sources. In the sensors area the group treats evolving requirements, improved sensor concepts and designs, performance, test and evaluation, and operational application. A key area of interest is sensor fusion of disparate sensing types at the node level. Specific applications covered include unattended ground sensors, persistent surveillance systems, sensors for robots, weapon mounted, and implanted acoustic sensors; littoral sensors; sensors on vehicles, airplanes, ships, UAVs and UGVs; acoustic, magnetic, hybrid and other mine (surface, buried and marine) detection sensors; tunnel detection sensors; vehicle signature identification; etc.
National Security Sensor and Data Fusion Committee (NSSDF) The NSSDF conference provides a secure forum for the presentation, discussion, and dissemination of classified and unclassified foundational, technological, and application-focused innovations in the sensor, data, information, and knowledge fusion scientific domain within the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. NSSDF hosts both SECRET level and higher level sessions presenting the latest developments in integrated information operations (fusion) technology, requirements, and programs. Our intent is to bring together fusion researchers, practitioners, and users of multisource information from the academic, industrial, and governmental components of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Intelligence Community, to discuss recent advances and new applications in sensor and data fusion that contribute to the defense of the United States. |