Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N162-089

Description

To address the Navy need to demonstrate and validate scalable hardware using Hardware Open System Technologies (HOST) standards, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Low SWaP Electronics for General-Purpose Processing with Open-Architecture Scalability (LEGOS) System, based on innovative use of modular and reconfigurable Tier 3 components selected to achieve Tier 1 and 2 HOST compliance and supporting general-purpose capability rehosting. Specifically, the innovation in unique system-on-chip (SoC)-based hardware to achieve reconfigurable logical and resource-domain support and low SWaP will enable the LEGOS to demonstrate module-level interoperability and interchangeability. As a result, this technology offers 3U/6U support with the SoC taking up <5% of 6U real-estate and <1 W with certain interface configurations, which directly address the PEO JSF requirements. In Phase I, POC plans to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach by designing and developing a HOST module architecture that complies with the form/fit/function requirements and is flexible and reconfigurable supporting at least two logical interface requirements with the same physical interface. In Phase II, POC will demonstrate and validate a prototype system based on the Phase I results and assess the production readiness, supply chain reliability, and update transition plan.