News: Optoelectronics
20 September 2021
PIRT wins $1m, one-year Air Force Armament Directorate award
Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc (PIRT) of Monmouth Junction, NJ, USA – which designs and manufactures indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs)-based shortwave-infrared (SWIR) line-scan cameras, visible-SWIR science cameras, and 1D and 2D imaging arrays – has announced a $1m one-year award from the Air Force Armament Directorate to fund the development of a 640x512 uncooled SWIR camera integrated with BAE Systems' Open Seeker Architecture (OSA) for low-cost targeting and tracking applications. This was through the Air Force Weapons Pitch Day, where over 60 small businesses competed for the one-year contracts.
PIRT will modify the camera form factor to fit on a glide munition. It will work with the Air Force Armament Directorate to begin integrating the OSA-compliant SWIR prototype camera and to conduct tower and captive carry tests to demonstrate the advance capabilities.
“We are very excited to be integrating our SWIR cameras with BAE Systems’ OSA to allow targeting of stationary and moving targets in GPS-denied areas for various types of munitions,” says PIRT’s president Martin H. Ettenberg Ph.D.
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