SBIR-STTR Award

Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (ATI) and Fortress Technologies have teamed to develop advances in flight deck data and voice communications for use by the Aviation Data Management and Control System (ADMACS) program. This unique challenge of providing operational, noise-free, voice-enabled data management in a flight deck environment, with wireless network integration to the existing ADMACS shipboard LAN, is expected to lead to new paradigms for aviation maintainers. The ATI and Fortress Technologies team that proposes this Phase I project is uniquely suited to address the inherent challenges of this SBIR topic based on their current portfolio of military-qualified flight deck communications products and secure wireless network hardware systems, respectively. Based on proprietary digital noise canceling microphone technology that is used in two different flight-deck certified communications headsets, ATI will initiate the design of voice-enabled mobile devices that provide highly accurate voice recognition in jet noise fields and provide interface to the ADMACS LAN via Fortress Technologies secure, FIPS 140-2 certified wireless hardware that satisfies DOD Directive 8100.2. This program is designed to successfully transition to Phase II demonstrations in a representative or actual flight deck environment.

Benefit:
Successful development of voice-enabled mobile devices that assist aviation crew and flight deck maintainers will improve operational productivity and efficiency, and lead to significantly improved command and control scenarios for the flight deck operations. The use of voice-driven tasking via mobile human-computer interface designs will provide improvements in mobile inspections, inventory management, weapons handling logistics, and a host of other aviation support functions. The advent of secure wireless networks for system integration to flight deck command and control also provides new opportunities for productivity and enhanced performance for critical flight deck operations.

Keywords:
Secure wireless network, Secure wireless network, Voice-recognition, voice-to-data, Noise Canceling, flight deck, mobile devices

Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (ATI) and Fortress Technologies have teamed to develop advances in flight deck data and voice communications for use by the Aviation Data Management and Control System (ADMACS) program. This unique challenge of providing operational, noise-free, speech driven data management in a flight deck environment, with wireless network integration to the existing ADMACS shipboard LAN, is expected to lead to new paradigms for aviation maintainers. The ATI and Fortress Technologies team that proposes this Phase II project is uniquely suited to address the inherent challenges of this SBIR topic based on their current portfolio of military-qualified flight deck communications products and wireless mesh network hardware systems, respectively. Based on proprietary digital noise canceling microphone technology that is used in two different flight-deck certified communications headsets, ATI will initiate the design and integration of speech-driven applications on mobile devices in order to provide highly accurate speech recognition in jet noise fields across a wide population of users. This system will be interfaced into the ADMACS LAN via Fortress Technologies secure, FIPS-140 certified wireless hardware that satisfies DOD Directive 8100.2. This program is designed to target a successful demonstration of speech recognition and wireless data communication on the flight deck at the end of the Phase II contract.

Benefit:
Successful development of voice-enabled mobile devices that assist aviation crew and flight deck maintainers will improve operational productivity and efficiency, and lead to significantly improved command and control scenarios for the flight deck operations. The use of voice-driven tasking via mobile human-computer interface designs will provide improvements in mobile inspections, inventory management, weapons handling logistics, and a host of other aviation support functions.

Keywords:
mobile devices, Noise Canceling, voice-to-data, Secure wireless network, Speech Recognition, flight deck