Optical Physics Company — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SOCOM203-002
Optical Physics Company — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,508
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Special Operations Command
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- SOCOM203-002
- Solicitation
- 20.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2021-02-22 → 2021-08-26
Description
Optical Physics Company (OPC) has developed and matured an interferometric star tracker technology which can provide the accuracy required for a Handheld Celestial Navigation System (HCNS) to serve as an alternate when primary GPS systems are denied. Innovative research and development is needed to incorporate this technology with other components into a HCNS which can address the eleven (11) design considerations in the SOCOM203-002 solicitation such that Soldiers on the ground have reliable and accurate non-GPS navigation capabilities. A key challenge in the HCNS development is for it to provide navigation when a Soldier is stationary, walking, running or driving in a vehicle