ALLUVIONIC INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SF222-0021

Description

To address the Air Force’s need for better interactions from the presence of end users with supervisory and decision-making roles in contested PNT services, Alluvionic proposes ArcSat, to reduce or eliminate requirements for user PNT interactions for autonomous PNT equipment resilience.  ArcSat is a system designed such that PNT data could not be spoofed or jammed, by using methodologies to analyze received celestial radio frequency (RF) and use Doppler principles and orbital physics to determine exact receiver position with GPS accuracy. By eliminating jamming or spoofing while simultaneously adding PNT sources, ArcSat exponentially increases the effectivity of autonomous PNT systems. ArcSat is an alternative precision PNT for contested and GPS-denied environments using both cooperative and uncooperative RF satellite signals for passive celestial navigation. In this Phase I effort, Alluvionic will design and build an ArcSat simulation model capable of either reducing or completely eliminating human-in-the-loop requirements in contested environments such as tactical edge and hypersonic weapons. Theoretical testing will be conducted with the simulation model. If successful, Alluvionic will develop a plan for future development and prototyping of the ArcSat technology in Phase II.