Maximally scalable Optical Sensor Array Imaging with Computation (MOSAIC)

The summary for the Maximally scalable Optical Sensor Array Imaging with Computation (MOSAIC) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Maximally scalable Optical Sensor Array Imaging with Computation (MOSAIC): 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: [email protected] (Addressed to: DARPA/MTO, DARPA-BAA-09-50) Full BAA document attached.