Extremely Small, High Performance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Payloads for Expendable Undersea Platforms Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2016.1 Topic No.: N161-039 Topic Title: Extremely Small, High Performance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Payloads for Expendable Undersea Platforms Proposal No.: N161-039-0581 Firm: Vadum 601 Hutton St STE 109 Raleigh, North Carolina 27606 Contact: Aaron Walker Phone: (919) 341-8241 Web Site: http://www.vaduminc.com Abstract: Vadum will develop an architecture and design options for a reconfigurable, modular Electronic Warfare (EW) sensor buoy to augment the Electronic Support Measure (ESM) suite of US submarines. The buoy design will include specification of RF and digital hardware, signal processing algorithms for detecting, processing and locating radar and communication emitters, and a software framework that enables operators to configure the sensor buoy prior to launch. The configuration framework will enable operators to partition EW applications with composeable signal processing operations across offboard buoy and onboard processing resources. A software library of high-level EW applications will simplify sensor processing configuration. Vadum will include advanced algorithms for radar de-interleaving, radar characterization, and communications emitter geolocation in addition to standard radar and communication software elements through partnership with EW equipment vendors. The flexible hardware and software in the buoy solution will dramatically increase the EW surveillance capabilities of US submarines through increased RF sensors deployed from the 3-inch launcher as individual or distributed nodes. Benefits: The modular buoy architecture developed in this program will significantly enhance the existing Electronic Support (ES) capabilities of the US submarine fleet. By combining the latest Software Defined Radio (SDR) system architecture, an EW application library of composeable elements, and advanced radar and communication emitter characterization algorithms the resulting EW ISR buoy will provide an on demand sensor platform to retain battlespace awareness in a complex and dynamic electromagnetic spectrum. Inherent scalability in the sensor and software applications enables the buoy sensor payload to adapt to mission requirements and remain relevant as future threats become more agile and adaptive. The EW buoy will achieve more than simple expansion of the submarine ES sensor count. By bringing the distributed sensing capability to the submarine fleet, the EW sensor buoy will expand the techniques available to collect intelligence ensuring that US forces can stay ahead of potential adversaries. Return