Retro-directive Ultra-Fast Acquisition Sensor (RUFAS)
Abstract
(U) The Retro-directive Ultra-Fast Acquisition Sensor (RUFAS) effort will design, construct, and demonstrate an X-band noise correlating radar with a retro-directive antenna. This effort will research and develop a new type of radar sensor based on the correlations of the Gaussian noise received by an antenna array from a small object located in the far field of the antennas and the retro-directive reradiation of the correlated noise. Combining and tailoring noise correlating interferometry and retro-directive antenna arrays into a retro-directive noise-correlating (RNC) radar will allow the radar to operate in omni-directional search mode. The result of this project will be a new type of search-mode radar having promising performance in terms of short acquisition time and low probability-of-intercept. The RUFAS technology is planned for transition to the Army and Marines.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 8b5f1c5424617f3555dfc69a06edd602