COBRA BRASS family of sensors

Some more factoids about CB:


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http://www.smdc.army.mil/Contracts/S...TORP0032_1.doc

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CONTRACT (SETAC)
TASK ORDER REQUIREMENTS PACKAGE (T/ORP)
ARMY SPACE PROGRAM SUPPORT STATEMENT OF WORK, T/ORP # 0032
SUSPENSE DATE: February 19, 2004

[snip]

The below listed security classification guides apply to this
specification:

[snip]

Cobra Brass Overhead Non-Imaging Infrared (ONIR) Sensor
Programs Security Classification Guide, 31 May 2001
(National Air Intelligence Center).


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http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN02-1...arms_story.htm

The Cobra Brass Ground System collects and processes real-
time, high-volume data from sensors flown aboard a satellite.
Sandia developed this complex R&D payload and its associated
command, control, and data processing system for the Air
Force. We successfully reached a critical R&D operations
capability milestone and have been reliably collecting
unprecedented data for the user community. The project is
viewed by the customer as a stunning success. Sandia will
continue to provide technical support and processing
enhancements throughout the system's expected five-year
lifetime.


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http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN02-1...rol_story.html

The Cobra Brass multispectral staring sensor system--consisting
of a complex satellite payload and its associated ground-based
command, control, and data processing system--was delivered
to the Air Force customer. Delivery of this innovative R&D
system, which will provide unique capabilities, marked the
culmination of an aggressive 30-month development effort by
a large number of Sandia organizations.

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http://www.ball.com/aerospace/pdf/masint.pdf

COBRA BRASS

The CB group develops algorithms and software toolshosted on
computer workbenches to support processing,analysis,
exploitation, and archiving of data from the CB family of
sensors. CB is an R&D program assessing the utility of a space-
based, staring, see-to-the-ground sensor with multi-band, fast-
framing focal plane arrays tosupport operational, national, and
intelligence communitycustomers. Today, CB data products -
processed and exploited by Ball Aerospace scientists and
engineers - are playing an increasingly important role in
supporting U.S. military operations.


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(Unfortunately, it's not clear to me just what this document is.
The description seems to fit the SBIRS HEO package to be hosted
on TRUMPET follow-on ELINT satellites.)


http://schnarff.com/SpaceWeather/PDF...tric%20S&C.doc

Centric Space Sensor #6
Telescope package hosted on a HEO satellite to stare at the
northern polar cap
Telescope will b[e] a 50 lb imager with UV, IR, and Visible
light filters
Complexity: Cobra Brass
2 on orbit
On-board processing with 0.1 MFLOPS for data compression
100 kb/s direct to CONUS with host platform data


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http://jobs.saic.com/ajobbext3.nsf/a...4?OpenDocument

Electro-Optical Scientist
Job Description:
Candidate should have familiarity with programs such as
SBIRS, DSP, Cobra Brass, or other similar programs.


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http://www.sbirslowteam.com/mission.html

(U) This PE funds the SBIRS Demonstration/Validation
activities: Space and Missile Tracking System (SMTS) and
Cobra Brass (CB). SMTS is the Dem/Val effort for the LEO
component of SBIRS, CB will provide data for the GEO and
HEO components. This program is in the demonstration and
validation Budget Activity Research Category because it
funds the risk reduction and an advanced technology
demonstration system.

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http://www.photon.com/profile-management.htm

James S. Draper, Ph.D.
Senior Corporate Vice President

During 1975-1984 he led teams developing infrared rocket plume
codes for the USAF and DARPA, Bayesian and neural network
target real-time weapons, blood and sea plankton classifiers,
laid out the missions and multi-band design parameters for
the first Cobra Brass system, and the development of the
theory of heterogeneous plume afterburning.

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