SBIR/STTR Research Award
Star Background Model
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- SPECTRAL SCIENCES, INC
- Proposal award date
- 2012-02-01
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- N8CQNLSSAZY4
- Solicitation number
- 2011.2
- Topic code
- MDA11-032
Research abstract
We propose to develop a new and innovative capability to model the contribution of stellar sources to the background radiation detected by EO/IR sensors. This Star Background Model would comprise a new comprehensive database of known objects outside the solar system, both stellar and non-stellar, together with a means of estimating their in-band radiances for any waveband in the 0.2 to 15µm range. Software will be produced to access this database and provide FITS format images showing the objects and radiances for user-selected fields of view and wavebands. A fully functional interface to FLITES will be developed.
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.
- Enhanced Heat Flux Closure from Data Driven Modeling
- Development and Demonstration of an Efficient Multiphysics Modeling Framework for Rain-Induced Damage and Aerodynamic Effects on Hypersonic Vehicles
- Data-Driven Predictive Sporadic-E Model (D2PSEM)
- Comprehensive Utility for Thinning Mechanically via Automated Prescription (CUTMAP)
- Feature-aware Ablation and Reaction Simulator for Thermal Extremes
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Star Background Model
- Stellar Track and Radiance Simulation (STARS)
- Star Background Model enabled by the VAO
Research funding history
349 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $142,164,659. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security