OpportunityTitle: Maximally scalable Optical Sensor Array Imaging with Computation (MOSAIC)
Description: DARPA&#146;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&#146;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.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: BAA Coordinator
GrantorContactText: Dennis Healy, Ph.D. &lt;br/&gt;Program Manager &lt;br/&gt;DARPA/MTO &lt;br/&gt;3701 North Fairfax Drive &lt;br/&gt;Arlington, VA 22203-1714 &lt;br/&gt;Fax: (703) 696-2206 &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: First Round Proposals due 08 June 2009