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When a distributed aperture radar is used to suppress jammers in conventional interferometric fashion, the separation of the individual antennas determines the width of the suppressed angular sector. This will be very much narrower than the mainbeam for a monostatic radar, but at the cost of ambiguous sectors where targets may also be suppressed. However, the distributed array presents an opport ...

Because of the large number of objects in a BMD threat cloud, discrimination of an RV from debris and decoys stresses the radar and processor resources available in the BMDS. During Phase I, MARK Resources developed several relatively simple algorithms for the detection of a physical feature characteristic either of debris or of threat objects, and we demonstrated the feasibility of quickly and e ...

In this proposed MDA Phase I SBIR program, MATECH/GSM proposes to demonstrate its newly developed ZrOC fibrous 5000F structural TPS for DACS components to be used in missile defense, such as MKV, SM-3 block-2, and AKV (Agile Kill Vehicle). Prototype components will be fabricated and tested under relevant solid rocket motor conditions, ultimately bringing this material technology to a technology re ...

This proposal addresses the NGA SBIR program objective to develop and demonstrate GPS receiver improvements for ground users to provide significant “high-sensitivity” signal tracking performance over conventional military GPS receivers. The proposed system consists of (i) the Mayflower “NavAssure” SAASM GPS receiver; and (ii) receiver software signal processing enhancements, in order to m ...

In this Phase II proposal, MetroLaser and Worcester Polytechnic Institute plan to develop an extremely versatile optical inspection suite to aid in the manufacture, assembly, and inspection of freeform optical components that are not easily inspected with conventional interferometry. After examining the critical manufacturing problems and associated inspection needs for such components, including ...

Without the means for stabilizing the scale factor and bias of MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers, they cannot become precise and accurate instruments. With stabilization, however, autonomous navigation is possible and GPS reliability can be improved. We propose to introduce active stabilization methods and test devices and carry out the proof-of-concept tests during Phase I. We will make use of e ...

Nova Sensors will develop and demonstrate a new type of infrared focal plane array (FPA) that performs real-time pixel-level dynamic range compression at frame rates in excess of 1 kHz. This will permit hardbody/plume imaging for all pixels in the FPA without saturation of the imaging array, without the need to adjust camera parameters. The very wide dynamic range performance as well as the hig ...

Nova Sensors proposes to develop and demonstrate an advanced multi-mode 2K x 2K format dual band (MWIR/LWIR) focal plane array (FPA). This dual band imaging sensor will provide wide area surveillance at 30 Hz frame rate in full resolution mode to over 1 kHz frame rate in a user configurable data compression mode. This demonstrated on-FPA data compression method permits high spatial sampling of o ...

The proposed part is a rad-hard, 16-input, 14-bit ADC, with aggregate speed of 200 MSPS. The 16 inputs are sampled individually and can be configured as 16 single-ended inputs or 8 differential inputs. The ADC provides 14 data outputs, a data-ready signal, and an over-range indicator. The digital outputs of the ADC are CMOS low-voltage differential signal (LVDS) outputs. The part will be fabricate ...

To meet MDA’s GN&C requirements, we are developing a rad-hard GPS receiver based on Raytheon’s RAPToR GPS receiver technology. In Phase II and III we will develop a modular, 2-channel rad-hard high anti-jam (AJ) RF ASIC. It will be fabricated in the TI BiCom3X SOI process, which has a high degree of inherent radiation hardness. AJ capability will be 70 dB with internal 2-bit ADC and 120 dB wit ...