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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Awards

Streamlined on-orbit Checkout of Space Systems SBIR
TSC was awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research project award from the Air Force Research Laboratory to build and demonstrate the linkage from UML to SysML applications for streamlined on-orbit checkout (OOC) of space systems with further extension to a real time integrated development environment on-orbit. Once this approach is developed, it will capture essential requirements analysis and systems engineering in Modeling Languages and integrate the results with a real time network-to-processor level IDE application, specifically for spacecraft On-Orbit Checkout (OOC). Through a standards based approach, models, modeled systems and process flow can be compared and controlled in real time, thereby significantly reducing the cost and time required for the OOC of future AFRL Space Systems.

SBIR Phase II Transition Funding for Discrimination Algorithm Development
TSC received $450K from Lockheed Martin matching funds to adapt our prototype Static Pattern Reconstruction (SPR) algorithm for evaluation on a high fidelity simulation test bed and for possible near-term insertion into the Aegis Weapon System.  The SPR algorithm recognizes ballistic missile targets based on the observed RCS pattern and an estimate of the target’s rotational state.  TSC received matching funds of $450K from the Missile Defense Agency to perform separate work on our 3-D Radar Imaging algorithms for application to next-generation radars. 

Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division (NSWC Crane) Support
TSC received $644K of incremental funding on our Seaport-e Engineering Support Contract to continue providing engineering services to the NSWC Crane Microwave Division.  This brings the total for this contract to over $22M.

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Program Support
TSC received an additional funding increment of $24K from the FAA for support for the ADS-B program. This brings our total funding for this effort to $408K. TSC is evaluating possible ADS-B sites using our Radar Support System software tool. The funding was received via the Volpe Center of the US DOT through our subcontract with L-3 COM/Engility.

Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Program Support
TSC was awarded a $25K bridge contact to continue to support the RAM Program Office of the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems until a new five-year contract is awarded in January.  TSC supports the RAM Configuration Manager and the total RAM configuration management program.

TSC’s Alabama Operations Contracts and Funding
Since the beginning of this Fiscal Year in October, TSC’s Operations in Huntsville, AL has received several significant taskings and funding increments of over $5M.  These include:

$2.25M for support on the RF Seeker Program.  TSC continued the development of a semi-active Ka-band seeker that is designed to provide guidance to an interceptor that will protect ground assets from high velocity threats for the Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC). Fabrication and test of the Limited Rate Initial Production units continued along with analysis of test data.

$560K for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Program Support.  The funding enables Phase IV Systems’ personnel to support ongoing work related to the system engineering, simulation, threat analysis, Battle Management, and other support efforts. 

$161K for NASA Space Shuttle Mission Support.  This support provides data collection and analysis of radar data collected during missions. 

$584K initial funding supporting for the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF). This funding is for sustainment and engineering support for various PMRF sensor systems.

$332K funding for Electronic Warfare RF Development.  TSC is developing a Pattern, Polarization and Power receiver that is in an underwing pods mounted on the F16, F18 and P3 platforms.

$110K funding increment for a Counter- Improvised Explosive Device Initiative.  TSC received additional funding to provide radar analysis, test support, and software support. 

$323K for ARES Rocket System Development. TSC delivered and trained NASA personnel on Flight Computer and Command Telemetry Computer Software Development Units for the Ares I rocket. This work was done under subcontract to Boeing who won the prime contract for the upper stage and instrumentation unit avionics for NASA’s next generation space system.

$584K for Test Range Improvement and Modernization.  TSC will provide design and fabrication services to support the upgrading of the control and timing system (CTS I&M) and up-converter for the three radar systems operating at PMRF. Leveraging the work performed on an Arbitrary Waveform Generator designed under an SBIR, the CTS I&M will allow these systems to continue providing superior test range data to PMRF’s customers.

Production Orders
TSC’s production subsidiary, PIVC, in Huntsville, AL received orders totaling $700K from several contractors including Thales Raytheon Systems (TRS), ITT, Northrop Grumman, and KRS.  TRS orders were for production of Sentinel and TPQ-37 radar assemblies which will continue over the next three years. The ITT, Northrop Grumman and KRS orders were for components for the sustainment of radars and signal processing systems developed by TSC that are at various test ranges.

Littoral Combatant Ship (LCS)
            TSC was part of the winning team for a competitively awarded, five year omnibus support contract for the LCS program office valued at $3.4M.  CSC is the Prime for this contract. TSC will provide logistics support to the LCS Program Office under this contract.

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane Division Contracts
            TSC was recently awarded two contracts for work in support of NSWC Crane.
            TSC won an unrestricted competitive contract to design, develop, and deliver a Wideband Photonic Microwave Test Station to the NSWC Crane Division, Radar Technologies Division, Advanced RF Systems Branch.  This Test Station will provide a turn-key, integrated, automated state-of-the-art (SOA) test and measurement capability for components operating at photonic and microwave frequencies. The WPMTS will be used to test radar, electronic warfare and communications components. The contract value is $718K.
            TSC was part of the winning team for the NSWC Crane Division, Power & Circuit Board Technologies Division support under a SeaPort-e task order.  The award of this small business set-aside competitive contract was made to Raydar & Associates, Inc. as the Prime. TSC is one of two subcontractors on the Team and our efforts under this task order include system and process engineering, software engineering, development, programming, and network support. The value of the TSC support is estimated at $2,2M.

Small Business Innovation Research Contract
TSC was awarded a Phase II SBIR contract for $1M entitled "Sensor Data Fusion" from the Missile Defense Agency. Under this contract, TSC will extend an algebraic 3-D radar imaging algorithm to fuse data from radars that are physically separated and/or operate at different frequencies. The algorithm will also be demonstrated on measured radar data.

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Engineering Services
TSC received $1.06M of incremental funding under its Seaport-e contract to continue providing engineering services to NSWC Crane Microwave Division. 

Close-in Weapons System Program Support
TSC was awarded $625K incremental funding to support the PEO IWS 3BC Close-in Weapons System Program Office through the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division.  This final increment of FY 2009 funding brings the total funding for this year’s effort to $2.9M.  TSC provides senior level engineering support to this program in the areas of production and overhaul, design engineering, logistics, configuration management and contracts management.

Federal Aviation Administration Radar Siting
TSC was awarded a new five year sole-source contract by the FAA to provide enhancements and support for the Radar Support System and to provide assistance to the ASR-11 program office.  This contract was initially funded with $581K. The contract will also be used to fund activities supporting other FAA organizations. 

Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Engineering Support
TSC was awarded incremental funding of $343K funding under a new GSA contract to support the Integrated Combat System Directorate of PEO IWS.  The GSA bridge contract is in place until a new Engineering Support Services contract is competitively awarded at the end of the fiscal year.

Small Business Innovation Research
TSC received a $207K plus-up from the Army Research Laboratory on a recently awarded Phase II SBIR to adapt our RIFTS Automated Trace Locator developed for the Army’s Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Detroit, MI to the Assault Hoseline System.  The funding was received under a Quick Reaction Initiative. 

Microwave Tube Engineering
TSC received incremental funding of $1.7M through our contracts with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, IN for support for microwave tubes. These increments will provide continued TSC support for engineering services and support the AEGIS, MK666, and Stewardship programs.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Projects
            TSC was awarded two SBIR Phase II contracts totaling $1.7M in funding. The first project, “Mitigation of Clutter Using Algorithmic Techniques”, is from the Missile Defense Agency.  The project goal is to apply TSC’s Generalized Space-Time Adaptive Processing (GSTAP) algorithm to suppress clutter so as to improve the detection of ballistic missile threats.  GSTAP extends the original STAP concept developed by Brennan and Reed of TSC in 1973 to apertures moving on arbitrary paths, and is applicable to both monostatic Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar and multistatic radar configurations.  The second project, “Logistical Decision Support and Planning in a Counterinsurgency Environment”, is from the Army Research Laboratory.  For this project, TSC is teamed with the University of Virginia to develop a tool for logistics planning that includes choosing depot sites, convoy routes, and estimating resupply operations while incorporating the risk of insurgent attacks.

AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense Support
            TSC received $457K of incremental funding to continue supporting the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program Office in the development of current and future weapon systems. This funding applies to the second year of our support subcontract (the first Option Year of four), for which General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is the prime contractor.

Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Support
TSC won a three-year, $2.9M contract through the Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) to support the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program with a comprehensive systems engineering analysis of its manpower, personnel and training requirements. TSC is the prime contractor leading a team consisting of L-3 Services Inc. and Thomas Associates.
 
In developing an EFV training solution, our systems engineering analysis will focus on analyzing learning characteristics, tasks to be learned, developing learning objectives, and choosing an instructional approach consistent with the established Analysis Design Development Implementation and Evaluation model. TSC’s feasibility analysis will form the basis upon which the MCSC will acquire first article trainers and simulators for the EFV, which will consist of training courseware, simulators, devices, mockups, and training aids, as well as an EFV embedded training capability for use by Fleet and Reserve Forces.

Lightweight Counter Mortar SUPPORT
TSC was awarded a $2.4M contract to provide continued support and to develop upgrades for the Lightweight Counter Mortar (LCMR) Mechanical Live Fire Test Simulator (MLFTS) at the Tobyhanna Army Depot, PA.
     
This 12-month contract includes the development of a new antenna array to support testing of upgraded configurations of the Army’s AN/TPQ-48 LCMR.  The MLFTS was officially accepted by the Army in 2008 and has since served as the basis for acceptance testing of new and repaired LCMR systems. 

The MLFTS allows the Army to make the highly regarded TPQ-48 radars more readily available to support our troops while saving up to $25,000 per radar when compared to live fire testing. The award is part of a planned 2-year effort that continues TSC’s involvement in this highly successful program.

Air Force 3-D Long Range Radar
TSC received a $252K funding increment under a 5-year subcontract with Chenega Technology Services Corporation.  TSC is providing the Air Force with technical support for its future 3-Dimensional, Expeditionary Long Range Radar (3DELRR) development program. The program has currently entered a 20-month technology development phase, with two vendor awardees.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award
TSC was awarded an SBIR Phase II contract for $750K for “Anomaly Detection and Intelligent Sensor Resource Management.” Under this tasking, TSC will mature a promising technique for detecting and tracking small groups of insurgents moving in busy urban/suburban areas based on processed data from UAV-based Ground Motion Target Indicating radars such as the Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (VADER) to discover anomalous vehicle and dismount activity.  We will also extend our simulation models from Phase I and process collected VADER measurements to validate these algorithms.

US Navy Support
TSC received $170K of incremental funding to continue support for both Ballistic Missile Defense Open Architecture Research (BMDOAR) and the Navigator of the Navy.

Radar Siting Support
TSC received $143K of additional funding from the FAA to continue work on ASR-11 Siting Support.  This effort will include updates to the cultural database for Reno, NV for use in the Radar Support System (RSS). Total funding on the current FAA support contract exceeds $9M.
     
SBIR Awards
TSC was awarded two Small Business Innovation Research contracts worth $850K. The first is for a Phase II SBIR from the Air Force Research Laboratory is “Defeating Emplaced Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Using Fusion Algorithms.”  TSC is teamed with Syracuse Research Corporation which builds the Counter Radio-controlled IED Electronic Warfare (CREW) Duke system that is widely deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  TSC and SRC will develop algorithms to combine Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) radar data, CREW logs and other information sources to predict the location of IEDs, which have caused almost half of all U.S. casualties in Iraq.  Tasks include developing techniques to characterize normal traffic patterns and to detect aberrant target behavior. 

The second is for a Phase I SBIR from AFRL titled “Over-the-Horizon Skywave High Frequency Radar Object Altitude Estimation.”  TSC will adapt innovative Target Height Estimation algorithms that were originally developed for application to the airborne E-3A radar on a previous SBIR program.  TSC is teamed with Dr. Joseph Guerci, who will be a consultant to provide expertise in Over-the-Horizon target detection and tracking.

AEGIS Program, LCS Program, and Navigator of the Navy Support 
TSC received incremental funding of $239K under our omnibus contract to support PEO Integrated Warfare Systems for TSC Washington Navy Yard Office personnel to continue Aegis Baseline, Navigator of the Navy, and LCS program management support.  The current contract vehicle has reached its end with the award of the follow-on contract pending. 

Naval Logistics Support
The Naval Operational Logistics Support Center (NOLSC) awarded $122K to TSC to develop missile spares budgets for the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).  In addition to the current year, the contract includes options for the next three years which, if exercised, will bring the total contract value to $519K.  TSC, utilizing our NAUTILUS model, has been supporting the NOLSC and NAVAIR continuously for over 20 years. 

Seaport e Contracts
TSC, as part of the EG&G Team, won two SEAPORTe contracts supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, VA’s Electro-magnetic & Sensor Systems (Q) Department, Sensors Division (Q40).  The value of the two contracts to TSC is about $18M over five years.  These contracts (one for Operation and Maintenance tasks and the other for Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation tasks) are follow-on contracts to a Q-Department Omnibus contract under which TSC has supported of work that has endured for several years.  The contract supports work by the Dahlgren and Silver Spring TSC Offices, including support for programs such as AMDR, Aegis Modernization, DDG-1000 Certification, Dual-Band Radar (DBR), G/ATOR, and SEWIP II.