Phase II SBIR
Focal Geometric Array Design and Development for Guidance Integrated Fuzing
SBIR Topic Number AF99180
Contract # F08630-00-C-0018
Nova's CMOS design engineers are producing innovative imaging and navigational sensors under this program. Two new technologies have been developed under this effort that (a)measure roll, pitch and yaw angle rates in real-time by performing a massively-parallel analog operation on-chip by measuring the motion of background structures imaged onto the FPA, and (b)integration of a variable-acuity "superpixel" imager with the velocity sensing circuitry to provide high-speed, wide field-of-view imaging performance combined with navigational sensor data.
Phase II SBIR
General Purpose Real-Time Digital Processor Development for Microdewar-Based Seekers
SBIR Topic Number AF00-174
Contract # F08630-01-C-0017
Hardware is in development that will permit the real-time digital camera data produced by the MIRIADS system to be interfaced with a SKY Computers, Inc. digital parallel processing computer. This will provide the AFRL with a software-programmable tool that will permit a variety of seeker-based sensor algorithms to be developed and tested. In addition, Nova has developed a miniature "Digital Camera Simulator" (DCS) system that is being used to provide high-speed 14 bit/pixel digital data to the "RTP2" system so the actual camera will not be required to complete the algorithm development work.
Phase II SBIR
Space-Hardening and Hyperspectral Application of Microdewar-Based Surveillance Sensors
SBIR Topic Number AF01-043
Contract # F29601-02-C-0030
Previous technology development on the MIRIADS program to place FPA drive and processing electronics very close to the FPA is combined with the development of a miniature image processor for AFRL/VSSS (Kirtland AFB, NM) on this program. A dual-color MWIR/LWIR FPA from DRS Technologies, Inc. is being utilized with Nova's electronics. The entire system is designed to be radiation tolerant for low-Earth orbit operation and is integrated with a novel "dual octave" Grating Imaging Spectrometer (GIS) assembly provided by SSG Precision Optronics. The sensor system is designed for Earth resources monitoring and other military applications.
