SPECTRAL LABS INCORPORATED — Department of Homeland Security SBIR Phase II: DHS201-006
SPECTRAL LABS INCORPORATED — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Homeland Security.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Homeland Security funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $999,845 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code DHS201-006 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $999,845
- Agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- DHS201-006
- Solicitation
- DHS20.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2021-04-08 → 2023-04-07
Description
Check point screening is key to mitigating threats in aviation transport as well as in missions protecting critical infrastructure, high-value cultural institutions, and persons, in a variety of missions from civilian security to law enforcement and corrections to military.These missions are made more challenging by the range of threats presents, from metallic weapons to liquid-based explosives.It is also challenged by the need for rapid and cost-effective screening, while maintaining privacy.There is a capability gap in existing detector offerings between hand-held metal detectors, offering portable cost-effective detection of metallic threats only, and fixed Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) systems, which require large and expensive fixed installations.In order to fill this gap, Spectral Labs proposes to develop and test a compact, hand-held device which functions across a wide range of threats including explosives, which are missed by a simple metal detector wand.The device will benefit multiple missions, from supplementing fixed AIT installations, resolving alarms without the need for a pat-down, to primary screening for pop-up itinerant screening locations, catching more threats than current portable offerings.This development would leverage SLI's experience developing its Multi-Function Wand (MFW) passive millimeter wave (mmW) hand-held device, while providing improved detection rates through discrimination of anomalies from threats concealed on the body.This approach relies upon the same physical phenomena used to provide Automated Threat Recognition in currently-fielded mmW-based AITs, but without the large antenna arrays and large range of motion required in the AIT portals.