SBIR/STTR Research Award
Multimode Distributed Optical Sensor for Target Detection Classification and Tracking
Award amount
$1,369,552Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Vibration, Impact and Pressure Sensors, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-02-18
- Contract end date
- 2019-11-30
- UEI
- X1S3PK2UPCU3
- Solicitation number
- 14.1
- Topic code
- N141-070
Research abstract
Vibration Impact and Pressure (VIP) Sensors Inc proposes to develop in Phase II a Multimode Optical Sensor that can be integrated into a single node of the Autonomous Undersea Weapon System (AUWS) for target detection, classification, localization and tracking. The Multimode Optical Sensor includes a vector sensor (triaxial accelerometer and hydrophone), and a pressure sensor. The vector sensor measures the amplitude and direction of acoustic waves while the pressure sensor reads the hydrostatic pressure as well as the dynamic pressure produced by gravity waves.The Multimode Optical Sensor is enclosed in a cylindrical canister with a polyurethane dome containing miniature optical MOMS (micro-optical-mechanical-systems) sensor chips, and a printed circuit board with the electronics needed to process the sensor signals and to communicate with the upstream system through an SBU port. The fiber-optic sensors are miniature MOMS Silicon chips based on the Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric principle. The MOMS technology allows customizing the performance and design for different types of sensor modalities and low cost production rates.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Deep Fiber Optic Vector Sensor Array
- Depth Insensitive Pressure/Vector Sensor Arrays
- Deep Fiber Optic Vector Sensor Array
- Multimode Distributed Optical Sensor for Target Detection Classification and Tracking
- Fiber Optic Vector Sensor Sonobuoy System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- In-node Processing for Low Power Target Detection, Classification, Localization, & Tracking
- In-node Processing for Low Power Target Detection, Classification, Localization, & Tracking
Research funding history
14 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2017). Reported award amounts total $6,843,712. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration