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Modern navigation systems are heavily reliant on satellites (e.g., GPS, GNSS, GLONASS, etc.) to maintain positional awareness and orientation. These signals are susceptible to intentional disruption, such as jamming or spoofing, and unintentional interruption due to radio frequency interference, signal attenuation caused by local terrain, or satellite malfunctions. Under Phase I of this SBIR, Aret ...

Optical Physics Company (OPC) has developed and matured an interferometric star tracker technology which can provide the accuracy required for a Handheld Celestial Navigation System (HCNS) to serve as an alternate when primary GPS systems are denied. Innovative research and development is needed to incorporate this technology with other components into a HCNS which can address the eleven (11) desi ...

Over the last decade there has been increasing advances in image processing applied to binoculars and scopes. For instance, hunting and military scopes can allow the user to designate, track, and provide lock indication on a target. However, with advances in neural networks, and associated processors, there are a wide range of additional capabilities that could be incorporated into these optical s ...

Rapid sleep schedule shift, such as resulted from travel or work schedules, causes severe disruption in the circadian clocks. Due to the frequent travel and night missions, circadian clock misalignment is a major contributor to the nonrestorative sleep that undermines subsequent performance in SOF operators and other elite soldiers with similarly demanding missions. In the absence of effective sle ...

Space Micro, together with its partner, CACI National Systems and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) proposes to develop a space-qualified RF payload for nanosatellites that passively collects RF signals over a wide bandwidth, identifying signals of interest by their spectrum, captures and time stamps these signals of interest, and – alone or together with other satellites or ground-based assets geo-lo ...

Botts Innovative Research Inc (Botts-Inc) proposes to develop, install, and demonstrate a prototype system determined to be the most feasible solution during the Phase I feasibility study, with priority placed on the detailed tasks identified in the Phase II Statement of Objectives. This prototype will enable the integration of all Hyper Enabled Operator (HEO) Sensors, Robots and Things into all S ...

Hivemapper proposes to develop an Open Source Dash Camera that is optimized for the production of high-resolution 3D maps, and to build a cohesive 3D mapping pipeline to generate fused 3D maps from both air and ground FMV sources. The production of the camera will include both hardware assembly and software development to calibrate and streamline the flow of multiple streams of ultra-high resoluti ...

In response to SOCOM212-001, Higher Ground proposes to develop a man-portable battery powered Starlink user terminal. Convenient handheld terminals connecting to a very large network of LEO satellites (such as Starlink) could provide the necessary ‘always-on’ reliability that one expects from using GEO satellites along with an additional advantage that we refer to as ‘The LEO Advantage’. T ...

Manifold Analytics and business partner, Lockheed Martin, are proposing an automated microservice pipeline to automate the process of data discovery, source preparation, and conversion of geospatial data into CDB layers for USSOCOM. This toolset is designed to integrate into directly into the existing microservice platform used by the Common Operating Picture (COP) and will leverage two decades of ...

To meet United States Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) need for a small form factor antenna that enables Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite communications (SATCOM) for small handheld devices, Epirus proposes to investigate a planar two-arm spiral antenna with a hi-impedance (Hi-Z) ground plane that optimizes for size and meets SOCOM’s stated performance objectives. The circular antenna p ...