DARPA Selects Rockwell Collins to Develop Prototype for Next Gen SDRs

摘要

Rockwell Collins has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a direct conversion digital receiver based on photonic technology. The three-year contract for the DIS-ARMER program is valued at up to $8.5 million. RF sensor systems on the modern battlefield must cover many RF and microwave bands, and deliver accurately processed information. Rockwell Collins seeks to apply the photonic analog to digital converter (ADC) technology developed under the recently completed DARPA RADER program to create a digital receiver that can accommodate X-Band frequencies.