RTX’s BBN Technologies awarded DARPA contract

RTX’s (RTX) BBN Technologies has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under its X-ray Extreme-range Non-imaging Analysis program, aiming to enhance service members’ situational awareness in the field. The effort will produce a new class of X-ray tools that reconstruct the hidden geometry of man-made objects from distances approaching a kilometer, giving commanders decisive insights when closer access is unsafe, impractical or denied. Under the XENA program, BBN will create a system that uses advanced mathematical modeling and image analysis to enhance the visibility of objects, even with incomplete or messy data, without needing large amounts of training examples. The team will run simulations, build the software, and test it to show how well the system can uncover important details about objects.