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Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP Boy)

Program Manager: Dr. Dennis Healy

Putting teraflop computing into the hands of the individual soldier will enable local control over sophisticated sensing like high-resolution radar imaging, space-time adaptive processing (STAP), urban structure mapping and occupant tracking, and multi-dimensional automatic target recognition (ATR). But, today's general purpose military processor units are too expensive, too big, and use too much power to bring such a vision to reality.

STAP Boy will develop innovative geometric algorithmic approaches in order to leverage the revolutionary teraflop signal processor architecture from personal computer gaming chips to enable this vision. Today, these low-cost video processors incorporate features that could be exploited for military applications, such as their 3D pipeline mesh scalable architecture and geometry-based algorithm to software mapping tools. These processor engines are very low cost, just a few percent of the cost of a comparable general purpose processor unit of comparable capability.

STAP Boy will provide revolutionary cost, computational throughput and high-productivity signal processing systems for the warfighter to enable tomorrow's urban battlefield sensing and weapons.