ROME — The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Va. has awarded ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC of Rome a highly competitive Direct-to-Phase-II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract.
The contract is to develop a novel capability called ADJUST – Adaptive and Dynamic Jammer nUlling System with multi-resolution Transform domains. The contract is valued at $750,000 for a 24-month period of performance. ADJUST will be used to adaptively detect and suppress the effect of jammers that can negatively impact or compromise various radio frequency (RF) communication signals and associated spectrum bands.
ANDRO’s Marconi-Rosenblatt Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Innovation Lab in Rome will lead the work headed by principal investigator, lab director and chief scientist, Jithin Jagannath, in cooperation with a resident research team that includes Keyvan Ramezanpour, Anu Jagannath and Justin Henny.
Company President Andrew Drozd said this opportunity further accelerates the pace of the lab’s current research in advancing the state of the art in jammer-resilient technologies for wireless communications. He envisions Phase III opportunities on the horizon for a multi-million-dollar program to transition the capability to the warfighter and for potential commercial applications.
“We have all seen even in the most recent events [like Ukraine] how hostile jamming is a constant challenge to RF systems,” said Jagannath. “These challenges are further exacerbated in satellite communication and navigation systems where the high sensitivity of the receiver is critical. We have an excellent team tackling this challenge head-on with a unique approach.”
According to Jagannath, the uniqueness of ADJUST is attributed to a combination of a flexible architecture design, performance optimization features, and an open architecture framework. He explained that ADJUST adopts a novel software-defined modular architecture with the flexibility of different signal processing blocks for hardware and software acceleration optimized for software-defined radio (SDR) platforms and that considers multiple RF signals to ensure a broader impact.
The ADJUST software-defined architecture concept also allows portability across platforms and seamless future upgradeability to ensure more robust jammer-resilient solutions for the future.
Drozd mentioned that announcements are forthcoming soon on additional Department of Defense contract awards to ANDRO relevant to the AI/ML Innovation Lab’s research in advancing the state of the art in intelligent SDRs and robust wireless communications applications.
ANDRO is a privately-owned company established in 1994 focused on scientific research, development, and the application of advanced computer software in the domains of radio frequency spectrum exploitation, secure wireless communications, cognitive radios, advanced radar data fusion, sensor resource management, computational electromagnetics and co-site modeling and simulation.
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