SBIR/STTR Research Award
Swimmer Detection
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Alaska Native Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2005-06-08
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- VWA8Y2QB7YQ4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H-SB05.1-004
Research abstract
The United States Coast Guard`s homeland security mission includes providing security for 361 ports and 95,000 miles of US Coastline. This coastline is susceptible to both criminal and terrorist attack. Waterside facilities and critical infrastructure are especially vulnerable to attack from on or under water. Alaska Native Technologies, LLC (ANT) propose using broadband active sonar technology coupled with artificial neural networks to provide critical swimmer detection capability at less than $100,000 per 1000 lineal feet of shoreline. A brief feasibility study with a system designed for fish identification performed for the US Navy in 2003 resulted in an 86% swimmer detection rate and a 94% nonswimmer identification rate.
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.
- Improved Coupling Factor of Personal Cooling Systems
- Exercise Torpedo Buoyancy (Recovery) System
- Multi-Purpose Antenna
- Geoacoustic Sea Bottom Characterization Using Passive, Cost-Effective Sensors
- Pier-Side, Bow Sonar Calibration Methodology for Wave Piercing Hull Forms
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low Cost 3D Sonar System for Underwater Threat Detection
- Phase II: The BioSonics UnderWater ACoustic Sentinel (UWACS), a Low Cost Underwater Threat Detection System
- Cost-Saving Enhancements to the Swimmer Detection Sonar Network (SDSN)
- An Underwater Threat Detection System Employing Low-Cost Sensing and Advanced Algorithms
- Advanced Acoustic Intercept Array for Underwater Surveillance and Threat Detection
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2012). Reported award amounts total $1,519,759. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security