SBIR/STTR Research Award
Handheld Celestial Navigation System
Award amount
$149,508Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- Optical Physics Company
- Proposal award date
- 2021-02-22
- Contract end date
- 2021-08-26
- UEI
- NNMCZN2CS7D9
- Solicitation number
- 20.3
- Topic code
- SOCOM203-002
Research abstract
Optical Physics Company (OPC) has developed and matured an interferometric star tracker technology which can provide the accuracy required for a Handheld Celestial Navigation System (HCNS) to serve as an alternate when primary GPS systems are denied. Innovative research and development is needed to incorporate this technology with other components into a HCNS which can address the eleven (11) design considerations in the SOCOM203-002 solicitation such that Soldiers on the ground have reliable and accurate non-GPS navigation capabilities. A key challenge in the HCNS development is for it to provide navigation when a Soldier is stationary, walking, running or driving in a vehicle
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.
- Compact High Energy Laser Beam Director
- Compact High Energy Laser (HEL) Beam Director
- Non-linear Adaptive Optics
- Small Satellite System for Space Surveillance
- Interferometric Tracker for Nanoradian-Class Missile Illumination and Track
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Hand Held Celestial Navigation
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
Research funding history
70 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2021). Reported award amounts total $35,389,096. 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 Commerce, Department of Energy