WAVEFRONT RESEARCH, INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: A17-047

WAVEFRONT RESEARCH, INC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$999,489
Agency
Department of Defense · Army
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Topic
A17-047
Solicitation
17.1
NAICS
Place of performance
PA
Period
2018-06-25 → 2021-01-23

Description

The primary goal of this Phase II effort is to design, fabricate, and evaluate a compact, lightweight, demonstration LWIR hyperspectral imaging sensors enabled by an innovative design form and dispersing element technology that is suitable for use on uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). An alignment and test procedure will be developed for the assembly and integration of the spectrometer and imaging fore-optics sub-system components of the demonstration sensor and an operational testbed assembly complete with GUI software applications will be designed and fabricated to facilitate the collection of spectral image data. The optical properties of the demonstration system, including radiometric performance, spatial and spectral MTF, smile and keystone distortion, and other system parameters will be measured and evaluated.