Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: To address the Army need for advanced data stream disassembly and reassembly solutions, Ph

Description

To address the Army need for advanced data stream disassembly and reassembly solutions, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Scalable Parallelized LInk data Transmission Through Embedded Referencing (SPLITTER) technology. SPLITTER consists of two hardware elements: a satellite side data disassembler and a ground-station-based reassembler. It is based on advanced self referencing framing techniques, metadata embedding, multilayered error correction, and intelligent data splitting. The innovative low-overhead (<3%) framing techniques guarantee accurate reassembly of data irrespective of frame arrival order and easily manage latencies>250 ms that plague existing SATCOM solutions. Integrated error-correction eliminates data replication needs and enables simplex operation. Dedicated hardware coupled with a computationally simple implementation support data rates>512 Mbps. Development risk is minimized as SPLITTER is based on existing technology developed for SPAWAR Pacific. As a result, SPLITTER directly satisfies the Army need for data disassembly/reassembly technologies. In Phase I, POC will define the system requirements and CONOPS. We will then design and develop a proof of-concept prototype and demonstrate it to the Army. In Phase II, we will fabricate the Phase I design which will be tested in accordance with Army requirements. Concurrently, our marketing team will identify transition paths for the technology.