Rapid Imagery Creation for Navy Training

SBIR topic DON27BZ02-NV020 (U.S. Department of Defense – Navy), Phase I and II. Open to U.S. small businesses. Opens: December 2, 2026. Closes: January 6, 2027. Currently, imagery analysts are excluded from, or extremely limited in, participating in dynamic Navy operational and staff training such as Surface Warfare Advanced Team Trainer (SWATT), Information Warfare Advanced Team Trainer (IWATT), Fleet Synthetic Training General Commander/Joint (FST-GC/J), and Commander Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX).This is due to the limited ability to dynamically generate the required products for imagery analysts within a reasonable amount of time at a quality that supports training. Currently, either summaries are provided to the training audience circumventing the imagery analysts all together or providing GRAPHPLOTS - the equivalence of stick figure drawing - to track the order of battle (OOB) made up of aircraft, ships, vehicles, etc., without any use of actual imagery or geospatial analysis. A technology to address this shortfall would need to take real-world geo-rectified imagery as a base and then rapidly adjust/modify the image to reflect the desired OOB and in a National Imagery Transition Format (NTIF) to be provided to the training audience for imagery analysts to process. For example, in real-life Port A, identified by Basic Encyclopedia (BE) number, is of high interest and has a collection requirement against it for satellite imagery to be collected. In reality, Port A has three Kilo-class submarines and one Luhu-class destroyer, but in the scenario things have dynamically changed such that one of those submarines is now underway and an additional Luda I-class Destroyer has arrived, requiring the rapid (less than 10 minutes) production of an NITF image depicting two Kilo-class submarines, one Luhu DD, and one Luda I DDG to provide the training audience for analysis. The same would be required for airfields depicting aircraft movement as well. Work…