SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improvements to Sense and Avoid (SAA) Systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Award amount
$99,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- OCEANIT LABORATORIES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-05-21
- Contract end date
- 2009-02-28
- UEI
- S6X8FST9JAM7
- Solicitation number
- 2008.1
- Topic code
- AF081-069
Research abstract
Current sense and avoid systems (S&A) using visible/infrared/RF sensor technology require SWAP (space, weight, and power) that far exceeds that available in mini-UAS. An aircraft of this size still represents a significant mid-air collision hazard to other aircraft operating in the same airspace. These types of UAS are frequently operated in close proximity to the ground and cultural features (buildings, towers, etc.). While the performance levels needed for these lower, slower UAS are relaxed relative to that needed for a large UAS such as a Global Hawk, the severe SWAP limitation presents a technical challenge to creating an S&A capability for this class of aircraft. Oceanit has developed a unique approach based on technology developed for the Department of Defense that will enable a reliable, low SWAP system, for S&A on mini-UAS. This effort will show the feasibility of multi-sensor discrimination hardware and techniques toward meeting the S&A requirements of a mini-UAS under 45 lbs
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Improvements to Sense and Avoid (SAA) Systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
- Improvements to Sense and Avoid (SAA) Systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
- Improvements to Sense and Avoid (SAA) Systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
- Improvements to Sense and Avoid (SAA) Systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
- Improvements to Sense and Avoid (SAA) Systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Research funding history
278 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2026). Reported award amounts total $141,296,922. 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 Commerce, National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation