Sensors

Current ground-based radar systems cannot meet the detection needs of evolving longer range threat systems without sacrificing scan times. The Army needs a solution, such as novel signal processing techniques, that can be implemented on existing radars that will provide improvements in probability of detection at longer ranges. Solutions must not impact current scan time requirements.

The objective of this focused open topic is to demonstrate technologies that support performance readiness and operational effectiveness of working dogs across all training and operational environments based on current and future Army needs. Technologies with purely veterinary medical use cases will not be considered.

The objective is development of an apparatus and process for certification of the index of refraction of infrared transmitting optical materials. Surprisingly, the infrared optics industry does not certify the index of their materials on a batch-by-batch basis.

The Army SBIR Program is searching for innovative solutions related to improving performance and size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) and/or address supply chain issues for components of uncooled longwave infrared thermal sensors.

This topic seeks to build an intellectual property (IP) library of designed, fabricated, and verified circuit blocks that can be licensed for use in future ROIC designs and de-bug the process design kit (PDK) to vastly reduce program risk for future DoD and commercial designs.

The U.S. Army wants to develop a diode bar with multi-watt (5-10W) power output per emitter. This will help maintain single-mode operation when coupled to an external wavelength beam combiner.