A -- WOLFPACK PHASE III SYSTEM DEFINITION AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Notice Date

February 16, 2001

Contracting Office

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Contract Management Office (CMO), 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203-1714

ZIP Code

22203-1714

Solicitation Number

PS 01-03

Response Due

March 19, 2001

Point of Contact

Technical POC: Dr. Paul Kolodzy, DARPA Advanced Technology Office, FAX (703) 696-9781, Email: WolfPackProgram@darpa.mil (email contact preferred); Contractual POC: Charles Nurse, DARPA Contracts Management Office

Description

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Technology Office is soliciting proposals in response to the WolfPack Phase III System Definition and Technology Development Program Solicitation (PS) [PS 01-03]. DARPA intends to make up to three awards to System Definition and Technology Development Teams to define alternative solutions to the WolfPack operational concept and to develop critical technologies. Proposals in response to this PS are due at DARPA by 12:00 PM on March 19, 2001. The PS can be downloaded from the DARPA web page located at: http://www.darpa.mil/ato/solicit.htm. The objective of the WolfPack program is to develop a ground-based Electronic Warfare (EW) system and the supporting technologies that can hold every enemy emitter at risk [communications and radars (20 MHz -- 15+ GHz)] throughout the tactical battlespace while avoiding disruption of friendly military and protected commercial radio communications. The future battlespace environment will likely be non-continuous with widely dispersed pockets of forces intermixed with enemy and neutral/civilian elements that will preclude the use of blanket jamming techniques. Concurrent with the evolution of warfighting doctrine is an equally dramatic development of advanced frequency hopping and low-powered, peer-to-peer wireless communications equipment that challenge current Electronic Support Measures (ESM) capabilities. The goals of the WolfPack program are to design a prototype system and develop new/dramatically improved technologies critical to enabling a precision, networked, distributed, close approach, spectrum dominance system and then to demonstrate functioning prototypes in a series of field tests. The emphasis of the program is technology innovation rather than extension of legacy techniques. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: high efficiency sub-resonant antenna design; low power wide-band signal collection and processing capabilities; networking algorithms to allow coordinated access to the spectrum by WolfPack units, military users and SIGINT systems; and distributed algorithms to rapidly detect, geo-locate, identify, and jam/spoof critical networks and nodes with low power electronics. The battlefield information generated and processed by the WolfPack system will be made available to other users and/or systems to enhance situation awareness and mission effectiveness.

Record

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