TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N231-004

Description

Consumer and industry demand for wireless capacity is ever increasing. This has resulted in the US Congress exerting pressure on the Department of Defense to vacate or share operations in portions of S-Band. While the telecommunications industry has increased efforts to sense the presence of federal radar signals and alter permitted commercial operations to avoid interference, the Emerging Mid-Band Radar Spectrum Sharing initiative directs DoD to study the ability to vacate or share spectrum from 3100MHz to 3450MHz. Completely vacating this spectrum would compromise US Marine Corps radar operations. Tools that actively monitor the spectrum in real-time, identify and locate commercial emitters, and work with radar operators to plan and/or automatically deconflict interference through dynamic spectrum sharing is of great interest to the USMC. Toyon will leverage our expertise and ongoing development of our existing Software Defined Radio to meet the needs of the USMC to produce a Dynamic Spectrum Management system. This will couple state-of-the-art hardware with easy-to-use software and advanced machine learning algorithms to provide a clear operational view of the surrounding environment to radar operators. Toyon’s software will allow the operators to create radar plans using both frequency agility and spatial blanking of the radar transmitter.