The TReX Consortium also awarded three EW-related contracts last month in support of the DOD’s Test Resources Management Center (TRMC). Vadum Inc. (Raleigh, NC) won a $7.4 million contract for the Advanced T2OURNAMINT Technology Development (AT3D) effort, which will support improvements to the TRMC’s EW Arena RF Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) simulation architecture to provide effective test of EW systems in dynamic “many versus many” environments. A second TRMC-related contract, valued at $11.8 million, was awarded to Santa Barbara Infrared (Santa Barbara, CA) for its Universal Large-Format High-Temperature Rapid Array (ULTRA) prototype project. Under this effort, the company will evolve IR scene generation technology beyond the its current state – 1024 x 1024 format IR arrays with a temperature range of 1000 degrees K driven at 200 frames per second (FPS) – by developing solutions with larger pixel formats, higher frame rates, and the ability to operate at higher effective temperatures. Finally, Star Dynamics Corp. (Hilliard, OH) won a $5.2 million contract for the TRMC EW test topic, Ka-Band Transmit/Receive Aperture (KaTRA) prototype. Under this effort, the company will improve test capabilities at outdoor radar cross section measurement facilities by developing technologies that optimize tunable coherent transceivers covering 34-36 GHz that exhibit SNR of 10 dB or greater when measuring -20 dBsm targets at ranges of 20 miles.
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