VETH RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF222-D016

Description

Aviation is very reliant on GPS and needs an alternative navigation solution to mitigate GPS tactical-absence vulnerabilities.  To that need, VRA offers a vision-based alternative navigation solution, called Lynx, for aircraft with downward-facing, fixed-mount cameras. Lynx is operating on DoD and Defense contractor, manned and unmanned, aircraft and offers best-in-class accuracy and reliability. However, many aircraft already have non-fixed-mount, or gimballed-turrets, cameras installed and can't further modify their aircraft with an additional fixed-mount camera.  For those aircraft VRA is advancing Lynx to be a software-only plug-in for current and future installs of gimballed-turrets, into a product called Lynx-GT. Lynx-GT will be a commercially-available, software-only, add-on product for any aircraft with an installed gimballed-turret sensor(s) and will be licensed as an OEM module for future gimballed-turreted sensor sales.  For those aircraft, Lynx-GT eliminates the need to install a dedicated camera and processor system for alternative navigation.