The US Army has awarded Woburn-based autonomy developer Scientific Systems a contract to revamp the service’s Buried Object Reporting and Identification System (BORIS) counter-unexploded ordnance solution.
Managed by the army’s Humanitarian Demining Research and Development, BORIS is modern software designed for civilian bomb disposal missions.
BORIS features scanning, identification, visualization, data processing, and range estimation to aid technicians and engineers in associated tasks.
It has a graphical user interface (GUI) that supports information relay with a variety of sensor platforms and enables coordination across field squad members with different levels of expertise.
Moreover, the tool incorporates an automatic target recognition (ATR) function to streamline sensor data, amplifying detection sensitivity and decreasing false alarms for faster clearing operations.
Addressing Next-Gen Threats
Scientific Systems wrote that BORIS has been active for over a decade in different non-military humanitarian mine organizations across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, including Ukraine.
Other applications BORIS has been deployed for include bomb test sites and munitions development.
The company noted in its announcement that the technology has covered thousands of unexploded ordnance throughout “millions of square meters of land” to date.
“In the wake of conflicts, the remnants of war including undetonated bombs and other explosives have triggered humanitarian crises by blocking access to aid, preventing families from returning home and killing innocent civilians,” Scientific Systems President Kunal Mehra stated.
“Clearing former battlefields of explosives has long been dangerous and painstaking work, but game changing new technology is helping to make this process more effective, efficient, and safer.”
“Our BORIS software has played its part in this effort by providing governments and humanitarian organizations with a powerful tool to remove unexploded ordnance and help people across the globe rebuild their lives after the battle has ended.”
“We are proud to continue our work with the United States Army to upgrade BORIS to help address a new generation of unexploded threats on the battlefield and in the aftermath of conflicts.”
