Spectral Cueing/Spatial Confirmation Targeting System

"The objective of the Phase II SBIR project is to develop a common optics sensor system that will allow the capability to perform wide FOV spectral cueing and narrow FOV, spectrally enhanced, spatial confirmation on military targets of interest. Spectralresolution will be on the order of 2nm in the visible. Due to the importance of the effort, SOC has already identified a qualified Phase II Enhancement partner to support our effort. The SOC team including RAI, TRA, CEB Metasystems, SSI and HyperTechSystems has designed and built several common fore-optic systems under other activities (i.e., LASH and Low Cost Missile projects) which have been designed to perform wide FOV spectral cueing and narrow FOV spatial confirmation on military targets ofinterest, and will utilize a unique PGP spectrometer and MIDIS real-time HIS/HRI processor technologies to successfully field a tower based HIS/MSI/HRI, CC&D target detection ATR experimental sensor system. To satisfy the objective of the Phase IIprogram, the SOC team will conduct the following tasks: (1) Update tower common optics sensor system requirements definition; (2) Continue tower sensor system tradeoff study; (3) Complete tower sensor system design and development; (4) Identify sources ofcapital for commercialization; and (5) Provide reporting. Completion of these tasks will satisfy the basic objective of our program, "to develop a common optic system that will allow the capability