SBIR/STTR Research Award
Separable Platform Glint/Cross Polarization Target Signature Modeled RF Augmenter
Award amount
$69,906Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1996Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- AMHERST SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Z9TUHQN8QK35
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Target drone aircraft cannot realistically simulate the target signature of a variety of airborne targets. To increase the effectiveness of target drone aircraft, the opportunity exists to augment the radar signature in order to provide an enhanced target return with user defined characteristics. The target effects of specific interest are: Glint, Radar Cross Section (RCS), Scintillation, Jet Engine Modulation (JEM), and depolarization effects. The RF augmenter system proposed will add these target return effects to a standard AQM-37C or BQM-74C drones. The ability to add to towed antenna elements to the drone is also proposed. These antenna elements will simulate the scattering points of a target aircraft. The towed antenna elements will each be able to augment the return signal to the radar system.
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.
- Reconfigurable Multiresolution Targeting System
- Two Degree-Of-Freedom Spherical Pointing Actuator
- SBIR Phase I: Spherical Pointing Actuator
- Universal Programmable (Computer to IR Sensor) Interface - UPI
- Low Cost Multiacuity Sensor for Active Foveal Vision
Research funding history
68 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–1998). Reported award amounts total $18,153,908. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration