U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) researchers are seeking stealthy bistatic radar systems capable of detecting and tracking small unmanned aircraft, with enabling technologies ranging from prototypes to flight-proven systems.
Officials of the DHS Office of Procurement Operations (OPO) hae issued a request for information (70RSAT23RFI000011) for the Passive Radar Systems for Detecting and Tracking Small UAS project.
Bistatic radar seeks to conceal the locations of radar transmitters and receivers by processing radiofrequency and microwave reflections from commercial broadcast and communications signals, as well as from other non-cooperative sources of illumination.
DHS wants to learn more about the availability of bistatic radar to detect and track small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are reportedly advancing more quickly than the ability to defeat them.
DHS officials want information about unmanned aircraft-detecting bistatic radar performance; costs; mobility and maneuverability; level of maturity; system size, weight and power consumption (SWaP); detection and tracking range; time to deploy and calibrate; and number of operators required.
More information is online on the DHS website.
