SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- DARPA-BAA-09-65 - Precision Electronic Warfare (PREW) - DARPA-BAA-09-65
- Notice Date
- 8/24/2009
- 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-09-65
- Archive Date
- 9/7/2010
- Point of Contact
- BAA Administrator,
- E-Mail Address
-
DARPA-BAA-09-65@darpa.mil
(DARPA-BAA-09-65@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DARPA-BAA-09-65 DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of wireless communication and electronic warfare. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. The goal of the Precision Electronic Warfare (PREW) program is to demonstrate technologies and a prototype system that will enable the fielding of an ad hoc sparse array consisting of multiple airborne and/or ground nodes that can perform surgical jamming. The PREW system should be able to project RF energy that results in the coherent combining of focused power within a small geographic area of interest (AOI). When operating outside the AOI, the system must minimize the coherency of the RF energy to limit the impact to collateral systems. This capability will allow the warfighter to impact the battlespace concept of operations (CONOPS) by disrupting and controlling communications and navigation services. The PREW system should be designed to be robust, low cost, small size, weight and power distributed platforms. The PREW concept envisions an array of nodes (40 or more) that have synchronized clocks, enabling the signal from each node to be aligned so that the array focuses energy at the desired location. The array will use both spatial and temporal characteristics to exploit the signal to noise ratio (SNR) and temporal requirement of the target and collateral systems. More specifically, this program defines jamming as a denial of Quality of Service (QoS) as opposed to the traditional saturation of receiver front ends. This definition applies for both the intended target, and collateral (unintended) receivers. The operational PREW system effect will be to place the desired energy on the specific target area while not affecting the non-target area. The system should be designed for multi-scenario, multi-platform capability and capable of deployment on airborne platforms or advantaged ground locations. Key technology challenges include oscillator synchronization, accurate pointing, and energy control. Key system objective is to degrade the quality of service of the intended target, while minimizing the quality of service impact to collateral devices. The PREW program is planned for transition in FY13. See attached DARPA-BAA-09-65 package.
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