Advanced Radar Concepts For Small (Tier I/II) RPAs

The United States Special Operations Command needs the capability to conduct intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance from airborne assets. The Governments objective is to develop an extended range radar prototype system that can track personnel and vehicles in all-weather conditions, during the day and at night, with a Ground Moving Target Indicator and to image personnel or vehicles through synthetic aperture radar that meets the National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale Standard. To accomplish this goal, the Eagle I airborne radar Phase II technology pursuit is to demonstrate that components of an airborne radar can be developed to meet the objectives required by the Government. The desire is to reach a Technology Readiness Level 5 for Eagle I.