SBIR/STTR Research Award
Location, Identification & Flight Tracking System (LIFTS)
Award amount
$1,499,982Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2016-12-20
- Contract end date
- 2018-12-31
- UEI
- NY98VECEW8H6
- Solicitation number
- 2014.1
- Topic code
- AF141-253
Research abstract
The current dependency on GPS for autonomous operation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) creates a significant challenge in Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) environments. The proposed SBIR effort extends the Technology Service Corporation (TSC) Location, Identification & Flight Tracking System (LIFTS) technology to enable remote autonomous UAS landings where GPS and alternate PNT data is unavailable or insufficient for autonomous landing. The LIFTS Remote Autonomous UAS Landing (RAUL) effort will continue the development of a RF cooperative pseudolite navigation system that shall include the LIFTS sensor component, designed for installation on a UAS platform, and one or more navigation fiducial components (i.e. tag) designed for installation at a remote UAS landing site. The tasks under this effort shall include the development of flight ready prototype LIFTS sensors and tags, ground-based sensor performance evaluations, UAS LIFTS payload integration, ground and taxi tests and performance analysis and a remote autonomous UAS landing test and evaluation using an AFRL-designated UAS platform.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Advanced Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) and AI/ML Algorithm Study
- Multiband Seeker Antenna Phase II
- Mitigation of GMTI Radar False Alarms
- Ultra-Wide Ka-Band AESA
- LIFTS and ISR for Maritime Operations
Awards with the same topic code
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- System-Of-Systems Open Architecture PNT (SOAP) Solution for Assured PNT in a GPS Denied Environment (SOAP)
- System-Of-Systems Open Architecture PNT (SOAP) Solution for Assured PNT in a GPS Denied Environment
- Disruptive Military Navigation Architectures
- Disruptive Military Navigation Architectures
Research funding history
299 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2021). Reported award amounts total $121,910,517. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce
Contractor profile
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