SBIR Funds KCF Technologies to Enhance Tag, Track and Locate (TTL) Systems

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding was awarded to KCF technologies by Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) for improving their tools for finding and tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction before they were put to use.

DTRA is mainly involved in taking measures for countering WMDs by developing systems for Tag, Track and Locate (TTL). These TTL systems look out for signs of personnel and objects that are involved in producing, deploying and storing of WMDs. The funding from SBIR will prove useful in improving the utility of the systems and extending their lifetime.

The TTL systems are made up of sensors that are sensitive to WMDs or previous versions of WMDs and these sensors communicate the data about the location with the help of radio transmitters to the monitoring centers. The TTL systems that are currently in use exhaust most of their battery life for transmitting data. The life of these batteries could be extended by using energy harvested from the environment or by employing active power management. The energy harvesting methods could be via solar or mechanical vibration methods.