PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N201-017
PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $140,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N201-017
- Solicitation
- 20.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2020-06-04 → 2020-12-14
Description
Physical Sciences Inc. will develop an Improved Laser Event Recorder (I-LER) that is a plug-in accessory to a smart phone. The proposed design moves several of the largest and costliest items in the original LER, including the power supply, GPS, context camera and microprocessor, into a single mass-produced item. Performance improvements will include an updated discrimination algorithm to reduce false alarm rate and an extended spectral range of 400-2000 nm. A system model will be generated and Phase I breadboard developed to establish feasibility and validate the system model. The breadboard will be tethered via USB to a standard commercially-available smartphone on which all processing will be demonstrated. Improved algorithms will be developed and validated on simulated and breadboard data. Requirements and a conceptual design will be generated for a prototype I-LER to be developed in Phase II.