SBIR-STTR Award

Cruise missile RF seeker systems will be required to perform ship target classification for high-valued target selection and conservation of missile resources. This development proposal will investigate the technical feasibility of adding target classification to cruise missile RF seekers. RF seeker improvements will be considered and new feature extraction and target classification processors will be considered. Also fourier phase spectrum characteristics will be considered for feature information content.

Cruise missile rf seeker systems will be required to perform ship target classification for high-valued target selection and conservation of missile resources. The Phase I effort investigated the technical feasibility of adding target classification to cruise missile rf seekers and considered rf seeker improvements, new feature extraction and target classification processors, and also Fourier phase spectrum characteristics. The Phase I effort identified some major technical issues relevant to adding a new rf seeker and automatic target recognition capabilities to missiles. This Phase II effort is directed towards the preliminary solution of current ship target classification technical issues identified in the Phase I effort.