MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION AWARDED NAVY SBIR AWARD FOR LIDAR ARTILLERY SYSTEM

Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced engineering and products company, today announced that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to demonstrate its atmospheric Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology for Marine Corps artillery. MAC’s exclusive Direct Detection Doppler Wind LIDAR (D3WL) senses wind speed and direction along with air temperature and density in any atmospheric volume of interest, such as along the ballistic arc of an artillery shell. This approach will increase the accuracy of artillery by compensating for prevailing atmospheric conditions. The accuracy of MAC’s LIDAR measurements will far exceed current methods (balloons and ground-based) while minimizing observability. MAC will demonstrate this technology to the military in 2012.

About Michigan Aerospace

Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) is an advanced engineering and products company that provides innovative remote sensing, intelligent systems and software solutions for space, air, and earth-bound applications. Our roots are in developing atmospheric measurement systems for aerospace customers, but we are also applying these same technologies and expertise to solving problems closer to home, including clean energy, water management, and early stage disease detection.