Low Cost Seeker
Abstract
The Low Cost Seeker program will develop novel weapon terminal sensing and guidance technologies and systems, for air-launched and air-delivered weapons, that can (i) find and identify fixed and moving targets with only minimal external support, (ii) achieve high accuracy in a GPS-denied environment, and (iii) have very small size and weight, and potentially low cost. The development objectives are technologies and systems with small size, weight and power (SWaP), low recurring cost, applicability to a wide range of weapons and missions such as small unit operations, suppression of enemy air defenses, precision strike, and time-sensitive targets. The technical approach for the sensing/processing hardware is to use passive EO/IR sensors, which have evolved into very small and inexpensive devices in the commercial market, and the reconfigurable processing architecture developed in DARPA's ADAPT program (budgeted in PE 0603767E, Project SEN-01). The technical approach to target identification will start from "deep learning" 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, 2016
- Source ID
- 680d69c4f06bd29b9e8e1f89e7cc9aeb
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