SBIR/STTR Research Award
Threat Detection from Space in the UV-IR (TD-UVIR).
Award amount
$1,956,520Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-09-28
- Contract end date
- 2027-09-27
- UEI
- RJH6GQUD3BT5
- Solicitation number
- 25.1
- Topic code
- MDA251-D002
Research abstract
OKSI is proposing a novel remote sensing concept for the detection and tracking of hypersonic threats from space that eliminated the clutter issue associated with current detection / tracking techniques. Our sensing hardware is low cost and can supplement the SDA sensors on a small number of the pLEO constellation. We propose to build these sensors and host them on commercial or government managed satellites to conduct proof of concept and demonstration. We will use sounding rockets as targets for this demonstration. Signal predictions for our sensors is obtained from M&S work.
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.
- CAS sensor for ISRU propellant production
- A Generalized Mobile Target Tracking (MTT) Solution for Loitering Munitions
- Optical probe for static pressure measurements in vitiated flows for ground test facilities
- In-line, real-time gas sensor utilizing a novel, multi-modal spectroscopy concept
- Soldier-borne Intelligent Realtime Visual Enhancement (SIRVE)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- UV/IR Data Fusion for Robust Spaceborne Threat Detection and Tracking
- UNHIDES - Uncover Nimble Hypersonic objects by Imaging in Dual-band Event-based Sensing
- Applied UV/IR for Rapid-Moving Objective Recognition (AUROR)
Research funding history
180 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2025). Reported award amounts total $90,018,148. 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, Department of Commerce