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Highly-mobile Autonomous Rapidly Relocatable Integrated Electro-optical Resources (HARRIER)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9451-17-C-0526
Agency Tracking Number: F16A-T05-0183
Amount: $749,880.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF16-AT05
Solicitation Number: 2016.0
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2016
Award Year: 2017
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2017-09-08
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2019-08-31
Small Business Information
20532 El Toro Rd Ste 303
Mission Viejo, CA 92692
United States
DUNS: 825470987
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 William Therien
 VP, Engineering
 (949) 716-4290
 btherien@exoanalytic.com
Business Contact
 Holly Bertrand
Phone: (949) 716-4290
Email: bertrand@exoanalytic.com
Research Institution
 Texas A&M Experiment Station
 Ryan McDaniel
 
400 Harvey Mitchell Parkway South, Suite 300
College Station, TX 77845
United States

 (979) 862-5969
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

ExoAnalytic Solutions, teamed with Texas A&M University and Georgia Institute of Technology, will develop Highly-mobile Autonomous Rapidly Relocatable Integrated Electro-optical Resources (HARRIER) with the goal being to design and demonstrate tracking of resident space objects (RSOs) in near-geosynchronous orbit (GEO) using a rapidly-constructed low-cost ground based electro-optic (EO) sensor with utility matching optical sensors from the Space Surveillance Network (SSN). HARRIER will leverage existing ExoAnalytic sensors that already today deliver GEODSS class performance with a minimum detectable target (MDT) of 18 visual magnitude (Vmag) using the ExoAnalytic Space Operations Center (ESpOC) software. Data from these sensors will be combined using software developed on the HARRIER effort to achieve SST class MDT performance by stacking frames from multiple telescopes to achieve a 3 Vmag increase of the Minimum Detectable Magnitude (MDM) over that of a single telescope sensor. ExoAnalytic's experience fielding and operating a global Space Situational Awareness (SSA) network of 140+ sensors on 5 continents and Hawaii has resulted in an unprecedented 100M+ observations of RSOs that will be used to anchor our design and performance predictions.

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