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Innovative Waveforms and Related Signal Processing for Missile Defense Radars

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: HQ0006-10-C-7320
Agency Tracking Number: B093-017-0102
Amount: $99,996.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: MDA09-017
Solicitation Number: 2009.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-05-03
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-11-02
Small Business Information
101 Bleecker Street
Utica, NY 13501
United States
DUNS: 806603515
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Walter Szczepanski
 President
 (315) 732-0101
 walter.szczepanski@heliossensors.co
Business Contact
 Walter Szczepanski
Title: President
Phone: (315) 732-0101
Email: walter.szczepanski@heliossensors.co
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Helios Remote Sensing Systems, Inc. and Michigan Technological University propose to develop and estimate the performance of innovative adaptive wideband waveforms for missile defense radar applications that are jointly and simultaneously optimized on transmit and receive for realistic operating considerations, optimized for expected target, clutter and jamming spectral support and optimized for cooperative radar operation. Operational considerations include spectral management techniques to prevent interference to other co-band systems, operation in the presence of electromagnetic interference, transmitter and receiver effects, and multiple simultaneous radar operation. Our algorithms, featuring jointly optimized transmit-receive wideband waveforms, will mitigate both the transmit and receive effects while optimizing performance for expected target and clutter spectral support, maximizing the achievable SINR, while constraining the waveforms to operate in severely restrictive EMI/RFI environments. Mathematical analyses and computer simulations will demonstrate the performance of the waveforms under near-ideal conditions with simulated first-order radar transmitter and receiver characteristics and realistic target and clutter characteristics during Phase I.

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