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Reconfigurable Subaperturing for Endo-clutter Processing

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Air Force 		Award ID:
86666 		Program Year/Program:
2008 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
F073-079-0367 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
C & P Technologies, Inc.
317 Harrington Avenue Suites 9&10 Closter, NJ -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2008
Title: Reconfigurable Subaperturing for Endo-clutter Processing
Agency / Branch: DOD / USAF
Contract: FA8750-08-C-0205
Award Amount: $99,079.00
 

Abstract:

The objective of this proposal is to develop a dynamically reconfigurable subaperature array architecture to achieve enhanced endo-clutter and interference suppression and realize target detection and identification. In addition, protection against mainbeam jamming is also addressed here using distributed Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) sensor technology. Generally, array manifold errors make it more difficult to perform clutter nulling while placing a sharp null exclusively on the jammer. For this purpose smart transmit subaperture beamforming together with adaptive nulling algorithms at the receiver side are proposed. The transmit subarray patterns will be synthesized to minimize the impact of the jammer. As a result, the clutter strength is significantly reduced thus enabling target detection. The return signals are used to generate adaptive weight vectors to combine the receiver outputs in such a way as to place effective nulls automatically along the jammer directions, thus enhancing the output signal to interference/jammer plus noise ratio. Thus a transmit pattern synthesized from subaperture manifolds together with an adaptive receiver array in the MIMO mode results in superior clutter nulling. In this context, the question of partitioning the original array manifold to generate an optimum subaperture manifold is addressed.

Principal Investigator:

Ke Y. Li
Senior Engineer
2017684448
kli@cptnj.com

Business Contact:

Mary Kritikos
Office Manager and Accountant
2017684448
mary@cptnj.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

C & P TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
317 Harrington Avenue Suites 9 & 10 Closter, NJ 07624

EIN/Tax ID: 113211386
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No