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A Tool for Risk-Based Maintenance and Inspection of the LPD 17

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00039-01-C-3145
Agency Tracking Number: N011-0963
Amount: $69,729.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2001
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
Information Technologies Div., 20600 Gramercy Plac
Torrance, CA 90501
United States
DUNS: 153865951
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Andrew Kostrzewski
 Assistant Vice President
 (310) 320-3088
 sutama@poc.com
Business Contact
 Gordon Drew
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: gdrew@poc.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to design and develop an entirely new wireless network for recovery of wide-band sensor data. This network is based on the Information Technology-Enhanced Asymmetric Sensor Star (ITEASS) architecture, whichconsists of an asymmetric communication interface (CI) for both longer-distance (100 mile) BLOS (beyond-line-of-sight) communication between a relay and processing center and short-distance (5 mile) sensor wireless LAN (WLAN) with LPI and LPD. Theproposed network has exceptionally high tolerance to multipath errors, necessary for sensors fielded in urban and littoral areas. System novelties include: low millisecond latency, essential to real-time interaction sensor control; PCMCIA sensor-specificcommunication interface; IT-superhigh compression encoding for wide-band sensor data; and spread-spectrum-code-division-multiplexing access (SSCDMA) software and hardware. The ITEASS will be modular to accommodate diverse sensors (TV, video, wide-band RF,radar imaging, sonar, acoustic, seismic, and EO/IR imagery). It will operate at 50 MHz for BLOS: TCDL, CDL, IDL; and ~1 GHz for the sensor LAN. The stand-alone system will cost only ~$100 per board, in spite of its supercomputer-class 8BOPS distributedprocessing power. It will be compact (2 in. x 3 in. PCB); low-power (~1 W); mass-producible; and designed for both required modes of operation: snap shots and streaming.Commercial applications include the rapidly growing world markets for cellularvideophones (2.5G and 3G), video conferencing, IP-streaming video, and video surveillance, which together are expected to generate annual sales of $250 billion in the year 2002.

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