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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Navy researchers seek to develop integrated radar and communications antennas to reduce shipboard RF interference

[USS Dewey (Arleigh Burke)]Shipboard radar experts at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., are asking a select group of 18 U.S. defense contractors to turn their attention to advanced shipboard radar technology that reduces the number of radar antennas on Navy ships by using integrated, multi-function, multi-beam arrays.

ONR officials issued a request for information (12-RFI-0004) Monday for the Integrated Topside (InTop) Flexible Distributed Array Radar (FlexDAR) concept to develop a scalable family of radar antennas for several classes of Navy surface warships and submarines. Navy officials caution that this RFI is not yet a formal solicitation.

The InTop program seeks to dominate the RF spectrum and create affordable, scalable antennas and antenna subsystems on Navy surface ships and submarines not only for radar, but also for electronic warfare (EW) and RF communications systems.

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