SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Proposers' Day Briefing
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2005
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-SN06-10
- Response Due
- 12/1/2005
- Archive Date
- 12/16/2005
- Description
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency?s (DARPA) Special Projects Office (SPO) anticipates releasing a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) at the end of November for the Large Area Coverage Optical Search-while-Track and Engage (LACOSTE) program. DARPA?s LACOSTE program is seeking to develop extremely-wide field-of-view coded aperture imaging technology to support single sensor day/night persistent tactical surveillance of all moving vehicles in a large urban battlefield. The LACOSTE coded aperture imaging technology proposals should focus on achieving a very wide instantaneous field-of-regard (90 degree cone angle) using multiple simultaneous wide field-of-view (FOV) images. For persistent tactical surveillance, the coded aperture should provide 0.3 m resolution across a large coverage area (500 sqkm) while operating from a significant stand-off distance (20 km). Analysis of multiple optical designs has identified coded apertures using large-area addressable masks as uniquely capable of meeting the objectives within reasonable cost, mass, and volume constraints. In coded apertures, a structured mask of pinhole cameras is created such that the image from each individual pinhole falls across a common focal plane array (FPA). With a large-area mask centered above a small FPA, the pinhole camera structure opens as a lens in the desired look direction while the remainder of the mask remains opaque. Knowing the mask structure, the multiple images on the same focal plane are digitally deconvolved to form an image. This concept provides several unique and enabling features. Orthogonally coded masks allow multiple simultaneous images at arbitrary pointing angles. Grouping pinholes enables electronically switchable resolution. The coded aperture replaces optical gain with digital processing gain. A critical enabling technology is the adaptive pinhole mask where each pixel is: physically small, addressable (either independently or in spatially distributed orthogonal groupings), millisecond switching speed, sufficient MWIR transmittance, low power consumption, large-area manufacturability, and extremely low cost-per-pixel. DARPA intends to hold a Proposers? Day Briefing for the LACOSTE BAA on 8 December 2005 at the Booz Allen Hamilton conference facility in Arlington, VA. Attendance is limited to no more than 3 individuals per organization. Potential proposers should indicate their interest by registration on the https://enstg.com/signup website, the conference code is LAC15530. All attendees at the Proposers? Day Briefing must be pre-registered. The deadline for registering is 1 December 2005.
- Record
- SN00935809-W 20051123/051121212235 (fbodaily.com)
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