BrainChip announced a partnership with Raytheon, an RTX business, to service a $1.8 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory on neuromorphic radar signal processing.
Raytheon will collaborate with BrainChip to deliver services and support for the completion of the contract award. The AFRL contract, under the topic number AF242-D015, is titled “Mapping Complex Sensor Signal Processing Algorithms onto Neuromorphic Chips.” This project focuses on micro-Doppler signature analysis, a specific type of radar processing that offers unprecedented activity discrimination capabilities.
Neuromorphic hardware represents a low-power solution for edge devices, consuming significantly less energy than traditional computing hardware for signal processing and artificial intelligence tasks. If successful, this project could embed sophisticated radar processing solutions in power-constrained and thermally constrained weapon systems, such as missiles, drones, and drone defense systems.
BrainChip’s Akida processor is a revolutionary computing architecture designed to process neural networks and machine learning algorithms at ultra-low power consumption, making it ideal for edge computing applications. The company’s neuromorphic technology enhances cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C)-constrained platforms such as military, spacecraft, and robotics for commercial and government markets.
“Radar signal processing will be implemented on ever-smaller mobile platforms, so minimizing system SWaP-C is critical,” said Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip. “This improved radar signaling performance per watt for the Air Force Research Laboratory showcases how neuromorphic computing can achieve significant benefits in the most mission-critical use cases.”
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