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Next-Generation Marine Atmosphere Observing Instrumentation

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-09-M-0013
Agency Tracking Number: N082-195-0525
Amount: $96,803.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N08-195
Solicitation Number: 2008.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-10-27
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-02-08
Small Business Information
304 Harper Drive Suite 203
Moorestown, NJ 08057
United States
DUNS: 101699874
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Timothy Maese
 Staff Engineer
 (856) 778-1660
 tmaese@bcisse.com
Business Contact
 Frank Caruso
Title: Vice President
Phone: (856) 778-1660
Email: fcaruso@bcisse.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The overall objective of this Phase I program is to develop the architecture for a satellite data uplink system for transmitting dropsonde measurement data from the sensor to a ground-based terminal without the use of a specialized receiver or direct line-of-sight radio links from the sonde to the host aircraft. This project is intended to complement the high-altitude, automatically ejected dropsonde system, XDR-928ds variant, being developed by Yankee Environmental Systems (YES) by providing a reliable non-direct radio data link between the YES sonde and the ground based users. The resulting satellite uplink device, SatSonde, will replace the standard point-to-point link used on the current XDR-928ds dropsondes (radio transmitter in sonde and corresponding AirHub receiver in the launching aircraft) with a satellite uplink system that will push the data from the sonde through an existing orbiting satellite data network and to the end-user through a web-based data dissemination service.

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