SAM #DARPA-PS-27-05

DARPA BEAMERS wideband electromagnetic-support receiver prototype development

DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office is seeking research and development proposals for BEAMERS, a scalable electromagnetic-support receiver prototype. - Government buyer: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Strategic Technology Office (STO). - Scope: Develop and experimentally validate an integrated, wideband, receive-only staring electronic-support receiver spanning approximately 1–110 GHz. It is intended to provide broad spectral and spatial coverage without scanning across the field of regard. - Technical approach: Incorporate beamspace processing, frequency channelization, Tier-0 detection, selection of signals of interest, scheduled selective coherent I/Q capture, and a digital test backend. - Phased demonstrations: - Phase 1: Demonstrate complete receive chains for 1×8 or functionally equivalent one-dimensional aperture band tiles. - Phase 2: Scale to 8×8 or functionally equivalent two-dimensional aperture band tiles and integrate the prototype, addressing cross-band detection, event association, resource scheduling, and scaling risks. - Services also include program reporting and deliverables, including technical and business status reports, a data management plan, milestone deliverables, applicable invention reports, and final reporting. - OEMs, vendors, commercial part numbers, and purchase quantities are not identified. The requested effort is prototype development and demonstration, not a specified commercial-product purchase. - Proposals are classified; no specific classification level is stated.

Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting classified innovative proposals to develop and demonstrate prototype staring electromagnetic support systems providing continuous spectral and spatial coverage over a large frequency span without scanning over the field of regard.

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