Maximally scalable Optical Sensor Array Imaging with Computation (MOSAIC)

Post Date

April 22nd 2009

Application Due Date

April 21st 2010

First Round Proposals due 08 June 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

DARPA-BAA-09-50

CFDA Number(s)

12.910

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant
Other

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

99

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

DARPA’s MOSAIC program aims to overcome the limits of conventional imaging system design strategies and to demonstrate the feasibility of innovative design approaches providing for near-linear growth of optical information throughput with increasing imaging system scale. This will enable extraordinarily high imaging performance in reasonably small and affordable form factors. The specific MOSAIC challenge problem is to design and demonstrate an imaging system that achieves very high angular resolution over a wide field of view without paying the heavy penalties in size, weight, and temporal complexity or SNR degradation incurred by today’s approaches. DARPA is particularly interested in integrated system approaches that exploit the co-design of optics, sensors, and processing to manage the transduction and management of enormous quantities of data from photons to information within compact, power efficient, and affordable form factor. All administrative correspondence and questions on this solicitation, including requests for information on how to submit a proposal to this BAA, should be directed to the administrative addresses below; e-mail or fax is preferred. The administrative addresses for this BAA are: Electronic Mail: DARPA-BAA-09-50@darpa.mil (Addressed to: DARPA/MTO, DARPA-BAA-09-50) Full BAA document attached.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Defense

• Office:

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

• Agency Contact:

  Dennis Healy, Ph.D.
  Program Manager
  DARPA/MTO
  3701 North Fairfax Drive
  Arlington, VA 22203-1714
  Fax: (703) 696-2206
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  BAA Coordinator

• Agency Email Address:

  DARPA-BAA-09-50@darpa.mil

• Location:

  DARPA - MTO - BAA0718

• More Information:

  MTO Solicitations Page