April 1, 2009

I am requesting funding for the MTI Scout Radar in fiscal year 2010.  The entity to receive funding for this project is Mustang Technology Group, located at 400 West Bethany Drive, Suite 110, Allen, TX 75013.           

The Navy lacks an all-weather airborne unmanned air vehicle (UAV) surveillance capability to detect and track high value targets that move, stop for a while, and then move again (Move Stop Move: MSM). Not having this capability allows suspected fast boat attackers to become untraceable when stopped within littoral regions and terrorists that stop and plant mines and IEDs along the shoreline to evade surveillance. Existing UAV radars possess a multi target track all-weather capability but do not have the ability to detect and track targets that move, stop, than move again. However, a new affordable Active Electronic Scanned Array (AESA) based radar is being developed for the Navy.  The MTI Scout AESA radar hardware has been designed to support MSM but requires additional work to develop, integrate, and test the MSM mode software. This radar capability offers the low lifecycle costs afforded by solid state reliability, has over twice the performance of similar systems, and is upgradeable with simple software updates.  The light weight and low power of the MTI Scout radar make it ideal for many other airborne manned and unmanned surveillance platforms including the Predator, Fire Scout and MC-12W Adding the MSM function within the size, weight, and power of a UAV airborne platform will give field commanders a new lifesaving surveillance tool to win the global war on terror.