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A Fiber-Array Illuminator Multi-Sensor All Weather Precision Tracker (FAST) For HEL Weapon Systems In Degraded Visibility Battlefield Environments

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W9113M-17-C-0011
Agency Tracking Number: A2-6386
Amount: $999,493.47
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A15-082
Solicitation Number: 2015.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2015
Award Year: 2017
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2017-02-21
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2019-06-21
Small Business Information
711 E Monument Ave Ste 101
Dayton, OH 45402
United States
DUNS: 962006594
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Tom Tumolillo Jr.
 Chief Operating Officer
 (505) 238-1166
 tom@optonicus.com
Business Contact
 Susie Engle
Phone: (937) 286-4819
Email: susie@optonicus.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Extreme weather conditions with degraded visibility severely reduce the performance of existing imaging technologies to detect rockets, artillery, and mortars (RAM) on a battlefield. To meet the Army need for improved sensor systems that perform well in such conditions Optonicus has developed a fiber-array illuminator multi-sensor all-weather tracker (FAST) system that includes a gated imaging system combined with a fiber-array laser beam projector for incoherent illumination of a target to reduce speckle effects and increase tracking performance. A passive dual-band and/or dual-color infrared camera is part of the system design that provides images in two spectral ranges. Image processing algorithms will be developed that make use of the advanced features of these passive cameras. The FAST Phase II system will work in tandem with a conventional radar system and provide identification and fine tracking to HEL weapons systems.

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