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Efficient Adaptive Beamforming for Missile Defense Radars

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: W9113M-07-C-0080
Agency Tracking Number: B063-033-0926
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: MDA06-033
Solicitation Number: 2006.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-03-01
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-08-28
Small Business Information
210 Airport Street Quonset Point
North Kingstown, RI 02852
United States
DUNS: 041546834
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Michael Deaett
 Principal Engineer
 (401) 295-0062
 miked@appliedradar.com
Business Contact
 William Weedon
Title: President/CEO
Phone: (401) 295-0062
Email: whw@appliedradar.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The detection and classification of reentry vehicles in the presence of jammers and clutter is a very important missile defense radar problem. High resolution, wideband adaptive beamforming (ADBF) is an important solution component in which both the transmit and receive beamforming weight vectors are dynamically updated to optimize performance in a time varying jammer and clutter environment. An important constraint on wideband ADBF performance is the high cost of current radar system implementations. During Phase I, Applied Radar will use an extensive beamforming technology base to demonstrate that a wide band, minimum variance, diagonally loaded adaptive beamformer architecture can be integrated into a low-cost, high speed digital beamformer. This research builds on our previously developed innovative, scaleable beamformer architecture. During Phase II, the beamformer hardware will be programmed and interfaced to an array such as an MDA SPEAR panel and the predicted performance demonstrated. Using realistic unclassified engagement scenarios, we will quantify the improvements in missile defense enabled by our technology. We have identified two technology transition paths, one military and the other commercial. We are teamed with a university partner actively engaged in commercial wireless research. We are also supported by an MDA prime radar development contractor.

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