Extremely Small, High Performance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Payloads for Expendable Undersea Platforms

The focus of this Phase II SBIR topic is to develop an extremely small SWaP ISR/EW capability. There is a need and associated requirements within the Navy and other Department of Defense (DOD) agencies to detect, geo-locate, and discriminate emitters of interest in littoral and open ocean environments. Larger intelligence data demand and fewer manned intelligence platforms make it difficult to meet all intelligence requirements. Additionally, scenario characteristics such as geometry, obscuration, clutter, multi-path, signal detection, and signal type may limit the performance of large standoff intelligence gathering systems. Thus, the need for small, distributed intelligence gathering capability is clear.Our design will provide an extremely small SWaP scalable ISR/EW solution that allows the tuner and processing to all be housed in a very package and provides low bandwidth results as a data product.