The Defense Advanced Research Projects Office (DARPA) supports an active program of research on Internetted Unattended Ground Sensors (I-UGS). SenTech is working with DARPA under an SBIR contract to develop advanced acoustic and seismic algorithms for target detection, localization and identification. SenTech has built and field tested several sensor units based on COTS components. SenTech is also developing acoustic-seismic sensors that can be deployed using a 40 mm grenade launcher. A new low-power Digital Signal Processor for this mission has been developed and tested.

The Unattended MASINT Sensor (also known as Steel Rattler and its air delivered version, Steel Eagle) combines the ability to detect and track targets at extended ranges with superior target identification capabilities. Under contract to Sandia National Laboratories, SenTech has provided the design of all signal processing algorithms and the software to implement them. This sensor has been successfully tested during the most recent Roving Sands exercise and in a variety of government sponsored tests.

The Acoustic Warning System - Integrated Sniper Location System is an easy to deploy, highly accurate sniper location systems developed under contract for Lockheed Martin Loral Infra-Red and Imaging Systems and the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA). The AWS gained high marks for accuracy during government sponsored tests at the USMC Camp Pendleton MOUT (urban environment) training facility.

SenTech has been funded for several SBIR projects in the area of acoustic and seismic sensing. For the US Army Tank - Automotive Command (TACOM), SenTech developed an acoustic sensor capable of implementing sophisticated array processing techniques (beamforming) to detect and track combat vehicles at extended ranges. For the US Army Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), SenTech developed a new approach for target classification and identification that combines artificial intelligence techniques with statistical pattern recognition algorithms to achieve a new level of target classification and scenario interpretation performance.

SenTech has supported the US Navy Naval Underwater Warfare Center in two field trials (1996 and 1997) sponsored by the Joint Acoustic Sensor Measurement Program. These test involved the design and test of a planar hydrophone array used to track towed acoustic sources and targets of opportunity. Tests of this system were carried out during the summer of 1996 and 1997.

SenTech has done consulting and design work for Textron Defense Systems, Lockheed Martin Loral Infrared and Imaging Systems, the Northrop-Grumman Corporation, IITRI, SAIC, Allied Signal, the US Army ARDEC, and the US Marine Corps. .