SBIR/STTR Research Award
Development of a Dual-Band Imaging Polarimeter for Reducing Apache Crew Workload
Award amount
$104,719Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- POLARIS SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-07-01
- Contract end date
- 2015-12-31
- UEI
- QLWWT11B15B3
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- A15-071
Research abstract
We propose to investigate the benefits of imaging polarimetry in multiple wavebands with the goal to reduce the workload of the Apache crew, focusing on the task load of the gunner. Imaging polarimetry has shown significant advantages under several conditions to outperform standard broadband radiometric imagers in locating targets and suppressing clutter. Multiple wavebands polarimeters have to date concentrated on MWIR/LWIR combinations. This effort proposes to investigate the VIS, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR wavebands to objectively choose a combination of two wavebands for further development in subsequent phases of the effort.
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.
- Large Aperture Testing for Electro Optic Seekers
- Infrared Window Aerothermal Response Model for Hardware-in-the-Loop
- On Demand Polarimetric Upgrade Kit demonstrated with a SWIR/MWIR SWARMS optical tracking camera
- Infrared Imaging Sensor Payload for High-Speed Flight Environments
- SkyPASS Next-Gen Single Aperture Day/Night Compass with Sky Polarization and Star Tracking
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Enhanced Targeting Sensor Technology
- Enhanced Targeting Sensor Technology
- Enhanced Targeting Sensor Technology
Research funding history
131 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $76,407,877. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce