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Collaborative Distributed Swarm Radar

Department of War · Office of the Secretary of Defense · SBIR Topic · 26.BZ

posted 5 August 2026 · closed 23 September 2026

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Summary

The Department of Defense is seeking proposals to develop novel signal processing methods for a collaborative distributed radar system using multiple small radar sensors on unmanned aerial systems. The effort focuses on hardware architectures, algorithms, and prototype swarm testing to improve target detection, tracking, and identification for both military and civilian applications.

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