SBIR/STTR Research Award
PASSIVE IFF SYSTEM
Award amount
$49,173Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Jsm Assocs
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO PROVE THE FEASIBILITY OF A PASSIVE IFF TECHNIQUE THAT IS NOT USED BY CONVENTIONAL SENSORS. BROADLY, THE PROGRAM IS MAINLY EXPERIMENTAL WHERE WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW SENSORS AND SELECT THOSE SUITABLE FOR FIELD EXPERIMENTS. WE WILL VISIT A MILITARY FACILITY TO GATHER DATA ON SEVERAL TYPES OF MILITARY CRAFT OF INTEREST TO DARPA. WE WILL THEN ANALYZE THE FIELD DATA TO DETERMINE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH CRAFT AND THE MAXIMUM RANGES AT WHICH RELIABLE DATA CAN BE RECORDED. LATER, WE WILL TABULATE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DATA. THESE WILL FORM THE BASES OF THE PHASE II FOLLOW-ON WHERE WE WILL AUTOMATE THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS.
Technology keywords
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