Dual-Band, Active/Passive Seekers for Enhanced Targeting

Attollo proposes to develop sensor architectures including detector device design, fabrication processes, ROIC architecture, electronics design, and image and data processing to support a dual?band (Vis-SWIR/MWIR), active (asynchronous laser pulse detection / SAL) / passive weapon seeker core. A precision guided munition with such a seeker would combine the functionality and capability of three system-level apertures into one device where sensing, processing, and algorithms can be much more tightly coupled to provide a higher level of actionable information to the warfighter. Furthermore, a single sensor solution would be able to seamlessly transition from one guidance mode (i.e. image?based) to SAL in order to disambiguate high?clutter targets. One can also consider CONOPS where sophisticated image processing algorithms could be operating with the Vis-SWIR imagery to conduct long?range navigation in GPS?denied environments and then actually engage with the target using traditional SAL, all within the same sensor space claim.