Situational Awareness Sensors for Airdrop Operations

Develop, integrate, and demonstrate within Soldier/Squad network an aerial situational awareness system that senses, locate and share enemy threat information to personnel or cargo dropped from an airdrop aircraft. System proposed will focus on airdrops from high altitudes, up to 25,000 ft. with high glide ratios of 3 to 1. Objective is to demonstrate a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 5/6 at end of Phase II. Primary focus for system is threat areas up to 2 miles (at altitudes of 20,000 ft.) forward of direction that airdrops systems are heading within +/- 45o (Threshold) and +/-90o (Objective).