EXPEDITION TECHNOLOGY, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N211-052

EXPEDITION TECHNOLOGY, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$239,805
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N211-052
Solicitation
21.1
NAICS
Place of performance
VA
Period
2021-07-13 → 2022-10-05

Description

We propose VLF Assisted Position Estimation and Resolution for Surface Ships (VAPERSS) to develop a capability to estimate position and velocity from very low frequency (VLF) signals of opportunity (SoOps) on a US NAvy surface vessel. Specifically, we propose to develop a candidate set of algorithms and system architecture which will 1) validate our concept of a global ionospheric propagation state estimator 2) validate our Phase I error budget using a candidate VLF receive antenna and notional RF path, and 3) provide results using simulated and previously collected data.