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Agile, Adaptive, and Ad Hoc (AAA) Emergency 911 (E911) Communications, Space…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 		Award ID:
96702 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
09SB2-0333 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
DARPA 09-016 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Pumpkin, Inc.
750 Naples Street San Francisco, CA 94112
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Agile, Adaptive, and Ad Hoc (AAA) Emergency 911 (E911) Communications, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Missile Warning, and Weapon Targeting Networ
Agency / Branch: DOD / DARPA
Contract: W31P4Q-10-C-0044
Award Amount: $98,971.00
 

Abstract:

Many of the 10,000 Hezbollah missiles fired at Israel in 2006 are the Fadj-3 rockets fired at Americans in Iraq. The Iron Dome, EAPS-ID, and Stunner anti-missile batteries can shoot-down millions of these shorter-range (under 70-250 km) missiles starting in 2010, but their cueing radars detect a limited portion of their trajectories which reduces their desirable 30-second intercept windows. Since 2007, China shot-down a satellite, a commercial Iridium satellite was destroyed by an undetected Russian satellite, and North Korea and Iran tested maneuvering warheads in space. The recently launched TacSat-3 and NFIRE satellites have 50-cm or larger aperture cameras that can detect these shorter-range rockets and ASAT collision hazards from orbit, but this is not their primary mission. An ad-hoc network of CubeSat satellites with agilely developed 7.5-cm cameras can communicate with each other and TacSat-3 using patented PeerSat Inter-Satellite Links to adapt tasking between cheap 7.5-cm and expensive 50-cm cameras to coordinate dramatically faster cueing for short-range missile defense, space situational awareness (SSA), and ASAT collision defense. PeerSat Links also provide Emergency 911 (E911) communications and immediate warnings to other orbiting spacecraft, and in-flight re-targeting to DARPA NetFires missiles or Stunner interceptors using weapon data links to counter-strike.

Principal Investigator:

Andrew Kalman
President
4155846360
aek@pumpkininc.com

Business Contact:

Andrew Kalman
President
4155846360
aek@pumpkininc.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Pumpkin, Inc.
750 Naples Street San Francisco, CA 94112

EIN/Tax ID: 943229999
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No