Military & Aerospace Electronics

Navy asks BAE Systems to 

develop airborne mine-hunti

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lidar for manned and unmanned 

aircraft

September 17, 2015

By John Keller
Editor

WASHINGTON, 17 Sept. 2015. Electro-optics engineers at BAE 

Systems are designing a lidar-based multi-sensor suite and onboard

 processing to detect, identify, and pinpoint moored and drifting sea

 mines from manned and unmanned aircraft.

Officials of the U.S. Office of Naval Research in Washington announced 

an $8.9 million contract Wednesday to BAE Systems Spectral Solutions

 LLC in Honolulu for the Passive Electro-Optics/Infrared and Light

 Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Environment for In-stride Classification

 and Neutralization program.

The sensor suite will consist of a visible-to-near-infrared (VNIR)

 multispectral imaging sensor, a broadband longwave infrared sensor 

(LWIR), and a 2D light detection and ranging (lidar) sensor,

 Navy researchers say.

The resulting prototype will consist of two identical pods, each housing

 a VNIR multispectral sensor; a broadband LWIR sensor; a 2D lidar

 sensor; a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) laser; and control, storage,

 and processing electronics.

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 system in potential $163.6 million Navy contract

When the prototype pods are finished, BAE Systems experts will 

demonstrate them at a Navy test range aboard an MH-60 manned

 helicopter or Fire Scout unmanned helicopter that Naval Air Systems 

Command will provide from its headquarters at Patuxent River Naval 

Air Station, Md.

lidar is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by 

illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. 

Essentially lidar senses with like similarly to how radar sensors 

with radio waves.

This contract contains options that could increase its value to $12.3

 million, Navy officials say. BAE Systems will do the work in Honolulu; 

Hudson, N.H.; Greenlawn, N.Y.; and Manassas, Va., and should be 

finished by September 2017.

BAE Systems Spectral Solutions is part of the BAE Systems Electronic

 Systems segment based in Nashua, N.H. For more information

 contact BAE Systems Electronic Systems online at

 www.baesystems.com, or the Office of Naval Research atwww.onr.navy.mil.


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