Seeker Cost Transformation (SECTR)
Abstract
The Seeker Cost Transformation (SECTR) program developed 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 in size and weight and potentially low cost. SECTR-developed systems and technologies are small size, weight and power (SWaP), low recurring cost, and 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 leveraged passive Electro-Optical and Infrared (EO/IR) sensors, which have evolved into very small and inexpensive devices in the commercial market, and a reconfigurable processing architecture. SECTR also developed a Government-owned open system architecture for the seeker with standardized interfaces between components (both hardware and software). The technical approach to target recognition started from "deep learning" and machine vision algorithms pioneered for facial recognition and the identification of critical image features. Technologies developed under this program transitioned to the Services.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 2ffc94c3e937a0cc697b259947b43721
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