SBIR/STTR Research Award
Portable Ultra High-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar for Close-Range Detection of Concealed Objects
Award amount
$784,998Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2012-03-09
- Contract end date
- 2014-06-23
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H-SB010.2-001
Research abstract
Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI) proposes to develop a portable high-resolution imaging system based on frequency modulated continuous wave
(FMCW) millimeter-wave (MMW) radar. The system will be operating at a stand-off distance (5-10meter) to detect concealed objects such as bulk
quantities of currencies secreted on person or in luggage which are moving at walking speed. The key advantages of this system include:
3D ultra high-resolution imaging (centimeters); capability of seeing through clothing or through leather; portable and easy to setup; advanced target
recognition algorithms for bulk quantities of currencies, such as radar polarimetry, Bragg-scattering signature and MUSIC superresolution analysis;
Solely based on COTS RF components and existing IAI-developed DSP system;
extremely low RF-emission due to the nature of close-range sensing.
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.
- Fast Accurate Safe Technology for Jack to Jig (FastJack)
- VMS: Deep Reinforcement Learning for High-fidelity Vehicle Motion Simulation
- VAST-CQA: Video Annotation and Statistics Toolkit for Crowdsourcing Quality Assessment
- SALUTEM: System for Activity Classification and Occupational Exposure Monitoring
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Portable Ultra High-Resolution Millimeter-Wave Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar for Close-Range Detection of Concealed Objects
- Electrospray Stand-off Detection of Trace Species in Air of Currency
- Detector for Smuggled Currency
Research funding history
1,182 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2021). Reported award amounts total $369,972,257. 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, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security