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2 Larry E. Corey Program Manager

3 Advanced RF Sensors

4 Cold War Today High-tech Countable Low-tech Innumerable

5 Proliferated Air Threats Problem: multiple inexpensive air threat assets overwhelm expensive (Patriot-like) defenses

6 Proliferated Air Threats Solution: multiple inexpensive seekers

7 Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) X Problem: Jamming

8 Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) X Solution: Rapid reconfiguration for new frequency

9 Shifting worldwide threat geography Problem: The volatile world requires transportable sensors

10 Shifting worldwide threat geography Solution: Inexpensive, transportable radar

11 Low Cost Cruise Missile Defense (LCCMD) Airborne Fire Control Radar Airborne Surveillance Radar Ground Launch Platform Low Cost Interceptor

12 MEMS Electronically Scanned Array (ESA) Seeker Phase Shifter Antenna Slat MEMS ESA Antenna Antenna 4Ka-band (35-GHz) Active Radar Seeker 4Electronically Scanned Array with 768 antenna elements

13 MEMS: Micro Electromechanical Systems 200µm ~150µm 4Complex, tiny mechanical structures can be fabricated using IC approach 4RF switches can be used for phase shifters, reconfigurable antennas Small, lightweight, low-loss, loss, linear

14 RF MEMS Improvement Program 4-bit Phase Shifters 80 mm 2 6 mm 2 4Goal: continue evolution, enhance reliability of RF MEMS while lowering loss, cost

15 Reconfigurable Aperture Program (RECAP)

16 RECAP Rivet Joint Airborne Surveillance 8 Spiral on RECAP s Varactor-Tuned AMC Spiral with Conventional Groundplane Jammer

17 Lightfoot: Transportable,Large, Low-Power-Density Radar Antennas + + Ground-Based Platform RF Components Leveraged Off Commercial Technology Base Large Lightweight Antenna Structures Leveraged off Space Technologies Airborne Platform 4Meet the radar PA and PA 2 requirements with low power and large apertures: 0Decreases the amount of equipment needed to support the radar 0Improves radar performance 0Requires the development of antenna technologies and new radar platforms

18 Beamforming Conventional Technology Lightfoot Challenge Rx / Ex FFT Feed Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex Rx/Ex 4Waveguides and wires feed every element 4Heavy 4Not stowable 4Space feed RF and control signals 4Optical beamforming 4Digital beamforming

19 T/R Chips Conventional Technology Lightfoot Challenge 435 W peak output 4Cost = $1,000 4Separate components 411 W peak output 4Cost = $10-$25 $25 4Single integrated T/R chip

20 Lightweight Antenna Structures Conventional Technology Lightfoot Challenge 4Ground-based: heavy, non-folding 4Space-based: good technology base for lightweight folding antennas 4Lightweight, foldable for repetitive stowing and deployment

21 Knowledge Aided Sensor Signal Processing Expert Reasoning Physical Databases Real-Time Database Exploit our knowledge of the real world to better analyze sensor data 1980 EM Modeling Tools 2000

22 Target Not Detected KASSPER Providing environmental details to the processor aids in target detection Target Complex environments impede the target detection of purely statistics-based processing darpa.mil/baa/prda0107ifkpa..mil/baa/prda0107ifkpa.htm

23 Advanced RF Sensors

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