Seeker Cost Transformation (SECTR)
Abstract
The Seeker Cost Transformation (SECTR) program will develop novel weapon terminal sensing and guidance technologies and systems for air-launched and air-delivered weapons that can: (1) find and acquire fixed and moving targets with only minimal external support, (2) achieve high navigation accuracy in a GPS-denied environment, and (3) be very small size and weight and potentially low cost. SECTR-developed systems and technologies will be small size, weight and power (SWaP), low recurring cost, and be applicable to a wide range of weapons and missions, such as small unit lethality, suppression of enemy air defenses, precision strike, and strike of time-sensitive targets. Hardware technology will leverage passive Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) sensors, which have evolved into very small and inexpensive devices in the commercial market, and a reconfigurable processing architecture. SECTR will also develop a Government-owned open architecture for the seeker with standardized interfaces between components (both hardware and software). The technical approach to target recognition will start from "deep learning" and machine vision algorithms pioneered for facial recognition and the identification of critical image features. Technologies developed under this program will transition to the Services.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 04d7130e974655468a551f0dfcf4b1a6
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