SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Multipath Exploitation Radar (MER) - DARPA-BAA-09-01
- Notice Date
- 3/13/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-BAA-09-01
- Archive Date
- 3/13/2010
- Point of Contact
- DARPA-BAA-09-01, Fax: (703) 812-3314
- E-Mail Address
-
DARPA-BAA-09-01@darpa.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA MER DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals to increase persistent coverage over a large urban terrain by extending the tracking capabilities of existing radar sensor architectures beyond line-of-sight (LOS) using both multipath energy that represents nuisance signals for current radar system and knowledge of the urban scattering surfaces. The ability of current radar sensors to engage and persistently track targets in urban environments is limited by Line-of-Sight (LOS) blockage due to buildings. This forces the sensors to very high aspect angles to avoid shadows, thus incurring a significant reduction in the coverage area the radars can persistently monitor. Sensor architectures that are dependent on LOS propagation can only maintain persistent area coverage in a topography-rich urban terrain by dramatically increasing the number of sensors so that any area has a LOS view to at least one sensor. For a ground-based system, sensors may be required for every street necessitating hundreds or thousands of sensors to fully cover a metropolitan area. Airborne system coverage may be limited to a few kilometers of range, requiring scores of aircraft for persistent coverage over a metropolitan area. The cost of wide area persistent surveillance is dominated by platform logistics and support, so this type of coverage would be prohibitively expensive. While objects such as buildings cast large RF shadows in urban environments, much of the radar energy blocked by buildings is actually reflected back into the street below. This multipath energy illuminates the urban environment within the LOS shadows and provides an opportunity to greatly extend the persistent area coverage of an airborne radar sensor. PROPOSERS DAY A Proposer's Day will be held on 17 April 2009 at 8:00 AM at Analytic Services Inc., Conference Center, 2900 S. Quincy St. Suite 800, Arlington, VA 22206, phone (703)416-3222, fax (703) 416-8408. This meeting will be held at the unclassified level. Proposers wishing to attend should submit their name and organization via email to the BAA Coordinator prior to 30 March 2009. See PDF for full details.
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