Near-Vehicle Situational Awareness and Omnidirectional Weapons Detection System

This proposal addresses the Ground/Sea Vehicles, Sensors Technology Area and entails the development of a suite of video (visual and IR) and radar sensors for detecting and declaring the presence of near vehicle threats. Opportunistic hostile attacks present a constant threat to US troops while in ground-combat vehicles. Existing ground weapons detection and near-vehicle situational awareness technologies are limited in terms of sensor field of view, range, size, and reliable target detection and location, especially while the vehicles are in motion. Our novel combination of video and radar, offers a performance region that, for both situation awareness and detection of random lethal attacks, is a minimum of 30-200 meters.