OHMT: Optical Hypersonic Missile Tracker

Hypersonic missiles (HM)  have a potential to penetrate current anti-missile defense systems and put U.S. naval assets at risk. Therefore, early detection and tracking of the incoming hypersonic missiles—especially in their final and terminal phases—is very crucial to an overall effective US naval defense posture and power projection.  However, a radar detection is frequently not a viable tool for detection and tracking of the HMs because of a plasma sheath that envelops the aerial vehicle at hypersonic speeds. To that end, OneLight Sensing is proposing OHMT, an original solution based on a small form factor, fused SWIR / LWIR dual Field of View (FOV) imager and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) target analyzer and classifier. This technology is based on OneLight Sensing expertise in designing compact, high performance telescopes, gimbals and EO components for LIDAR and space systems. The proposed Optical Hypersonic Missile Tracker (OHMT) acquires and images target in two spectral ranges (SWIR and LWIR) , day and night, platform-agnostic, and performs spectroscopy-based target ID and classification.