MAYFLOWER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: This proposal is fully responsive to the Army PEO IEWS SBIR solicitation"s objective

Description

This proposal is fully responsive to the Army PEO IEWS SBIR solicitation"s objective to develop and demonstrate advanced connectivity and control technologies to provide a miniature Selective-Availability Anti-Spoofing (SAASM) based Global Positioning System (GPS) capability to a Handheld device (commercial Smartphone) as an expandable module. Mayflower proposes to develop and demonstrate an innovative system architecture to provide SAASM GPS receiver-based secure navigation capability to a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) smartphone by leveraging its state-of-the-art micro-SAASM GPS receiver technology in a very small SWaP-C (size, weight and power, and cost) package for use in Soldier Handheld device applications. The proposed system encompasses two modules. The first module - a hardware module - referred to as SmartSAASM consists of a SAASM GPS receiver, batteries and a communication interface packaged in a small body-wearable form factor. The second module a software module - is an App along with few other software submodules running on a smartphone facilitates user interaction with the SmartSAASM module.