EPISENSORS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N232-088
EPISENSORS INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Amount
- $139,996
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N232-088
- Solicitation
- 23.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- IL
- Period
- 2023-09-18 → 2024-03-15
Description
A passive multimode IR and RF sensor fusion platform in a missile seeker guidance system would greatly benefit a missile’s capabilities in tracking and locking to a target. The strengths of RF and IR somewhat complement each other and the use of both can greatly increase the system’s ability to react to current countermeasures by independently selecting a disaffected sensor’s data to follow. The sensor fusion lends to increased accuracy in cluttered and/or low signal environments by giving two sources of data to parse which increases confidence in target acquisition and tracking. This proposal seeks to build a digital system to mix passive RF with the acquisition of such signals through commercially available software defined radio system that will feed into a pre-existing IR image processing core. The hardware capabilities will handle the real-time digitization and processing of both signals with edge computational abilities to make an intelligent system that can discern the detection and tracking of a target in a multimode passive IR/RF system.