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Persistent Airborne Counter Unmanned Aerial System Surveillance (N25A-T016) is sponsored by Department of the Navy (DoD). This STTR topic focuses on developing and demonstrating an innovative airborne counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) concept for persistent surveillance around Naval ships or forward operating bases.
It seeks a balance between sensing performance (detection and tracking performance against Group 1-3 intruders, mitigating false alarms) and host unmanned airborne platform capabilities with overall size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C). Consideration should be given to common sensing systems including radar, radio frequency analyzers, acoustic and optical systems either alone or in combination on the host platform.
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