The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme in September 2021 awarded USD750,000 to Texas-based small business Cobalt Solutions to develop a detection and tracking sensor system that can identify nefarious small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in an urban environment.
The Phase II award follows a successful demonstration by Cobalt Solutions of its 5G Passive Radar UAS Tracking and Targeting (5G-PRT) sensor system in Phase I.
Cobalt plans to develop its Urban Canyon Detection Tracking and Identification of Small UAV solution under Phase II to provide an affordable, passive and easily deployable system that leverages already available commercial 5G signals to detect and track small UAS in urban canyon environments.
