Sensors

Advanced Spectrum Situational Awareness is required for improved threat detection and Future Tactical UAS applications. UAS swarms require accurate timing and position information for navigation and information fusion.

To overcome limitations inherent in conventional image-based targeting systems, (e.g., visible, and conventional thermal vision systems) a polarimetrically filtered SWIR camera system based on new high resolution FPA technology is to be developed.

Active imaging systems all require the detection of reflected light, usually through an active source such as a laser. Additionally, commonly fielded single-point range finding technologies lack the capability to ensure that the range for the object of interest is being interrogated rather than an adjacent object in the scene.

This effort explores novel applications of new, state of the art Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) ADCs tightly integrated with advanced FPGAs providing revolutionary increases in wideband direct digital Radio Frequency (RF) sampling. Rapidly changing threat environment with a multitude of signals, both threat and non-threat, in close proximity and covering an ever-increasing swath of spectrum, is an ever-present challenge. This presents the difficult task of assessing and identifying a wide variety of signal types accurately and quickly across an extremely wide range of frequencies.

A counter unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) that utilizes multiple sensors would have the ability to detect and track unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using a variety of methods while minimizing nuisance detections to near zero.

Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) present significant challenges to tactical operations due to lack of situational awareness, which can lead to mission failure and loss of life. Such environments include low light, fog, dust, rain, snow, and other visual obscurants.