Affordable GPS-independent Precision Munitions

Crossfield, together with Omnitek Partners, will investigate and develop GPS Independent Precision Munition guidance architecture that has comparable accuracy to GPS and is inherently hard to jamming and interference. The baseline architecture will employ a novel orientation sensor that provides both orientation and can provide position location. The sensor will operate in the 60 GHz oxygen absorption frequency band, which offers significant advantages in terms of robustness to jamming and interference as well as providing covertness (low probability of intercept or LPI). Crossfield and Omnitek propose a six month effort with Option. The Phase I program will include investigation into precision guidance and control concepts using the orientation sensor as a baseline. In addition, the current off-the-shelf orientation sensors will be integrated with off the shelf inertial sensor and used to validate control and sensing concepts under real hardware constraints that cannot be easily simulated without the use of tools or test beds ordinarily beyond the scope of an SBIR program. In this way, the overall risk to the Army of a Phase II program are significantly mitigated.