SBIR/STTR Research Award
Space-Based Lidar for Situational Awareness
Award amount
$1,499,361Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-08-23
- Contract end date
- 2024-03-23
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- AF182-115
Research abstract
In our Phase 1 program, Fibertek demonstrated that extremely low-cost coded-waveform LIDAR sensors can provide precision ranging and tracking from small satellite platforms. In this proposed work, we will perform an expanded trade study over additional LIDAR phenomenologies to determine the feasibility and information value for additional sensing modes. On completion of trade study tasks, we will design a concept sensor for high-value data collection based on the most promising performance results uncovered during trade analysis. Finally, sensor performance will be validated with laboratory breadboard demonstration and/or performance modeling and simulation, and risk-reduction testing will be performed on key enabling technology components. This proposal is being submitted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in furtherance of USAF Phase I SBIR Topic AF-182-155. Fibertek will analyze multiple lidar approaches under the proposed effort
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Mars, Lunar Science and ISRU Prospecting
- Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
- Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications
- Space-Capable Laser for Mars/Lunar ISAM Robotic Vacuum Welding
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU
Awards with the same topic code
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- Extremely Low Cost Lidar Sensor for Small Spacecraft
- Snapshot Hyperspectral Missile Warning Sensor
- Uncooled Radiation-Hard InGaAs Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) Photon-Sensing Integrated Circuit (PSIC) Video Imager as Low-Cost Payload for Small Spacecraft
- Mid-Infrared LiDAR for Small Spacecraft
- Extremely Low Cost Sensors for Small Spacecraft
Research funding history
173 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $69,654,466. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
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