Sensors

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.