SBIR/STTR Research Award
Digital Explosive Ordance Detection System
Award amount
$69,990Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Physical Optics Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2010-04-14
- Contract end date
- 2010-10-14
- UEI
- DG3AB4E8R4D8
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- A09-136
Research abstract
To address the Army’s need for a multispectral gamma detector to support explosives detection, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Digital Explosive Ordnance Detection (DEOD) system. This system is based on a pixelated NaI(Tl) scintillator and embedded signal enhancement and pulse-shape discrimination software. The innovation in pixelated detector design for signal enhancement and noise suppression, coincidence detection approach, and signal discrimination will enable detection of explosive quantities as low as 10 kilograms using Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA). DEOD offers high-resolution (1–3%) detection of gamma lines with energies 2-11 MeV needed for PGNAA, and achieves directionality to within 10 degrees. It allows real-time (
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Research funding history
1,933 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2021). Reported award amounts total $549,686,800. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security
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