Mr. Richard C. Ormesher Profile

Richard C. Ormesher

at Sandia National Labs

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Proceedings Article | 8 May 2006 Paper

Current test results for the Athena radar responsive tag

Richard Ormesher, Ana Martinez, Kenneth Plummer, David Erlandson, Sheri Delaware, David Clark

Proceedings Volume 6210, 62100K (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664623

KEYWORDS: Radar, Synthetic aperture radar, Modulation, Global Positioning System, Cockpit displays, Roads, Antennas, Situational awareness sensors, Receivers, Switches

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Proceedings Article | 12 August 2004 Paper

Current radar-responsive tag development activities at Sandia National Laboratories

Richard Ormesher, Kenneth Plummer, Lars Wells

Proceedings Volume 5410, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541665

KEYWORDS: Radar, Modulation, Global Positioning System, Surveillance, Warfare, Software development, Stars, Target detection, Solids, Computer architecture

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Over the past ten years, Sandia has developed RF radar responsive tag systems and supporting technologies for various government agencies and industry partners. RF tags can function as RF transmitters or radar transponders that enable tagging, tracking, and location determination functions. Expertise in tag architecture, microwave and radar design, signal analysis and processing techniques, digital design, modeling and simulation, and testing have been directly applicable to these tag programs. In general, the radar responsive tag designs have emphasized low power, small package size, and the ability to be detected by the radar at long ranges. Recently, there has been an interest in using radar responsive tags for Blue Force tracking and Combat ID (CID). The main reason for this interest is to allow airborne surveillance radars to easily distinguish U.S. assets from those of opposing forces. A Blue Force tracking capability would add materially to situational awareness. Combat ID is also an issue, as evidenced by the fact that approximately one-quarter of all U.S. casualties in the Gulf War took the form of ground troops killed by friendly fire. Because the evolution of warfare in the intervening decade has made asymmetric warfare the norm rather than the exception, swarming engagements in which U.S. forces will be freely intermixed with opposing forces is a situation that must be anticipated. Increasing utilization of precision munitions can be expected to drive fires progressively closer to engaged allied troops at times when visual de-confliction is not an option. In view of these trends, it becomes increasingly important that U.S. ground forces have a widely proliferated all-weather radar responsive tag that communicates to all-weather surveillance. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the recent, current, and future radar responsive research and development activities at Sandia National Laboratories that support both the Blue Force Tracking and Combat ID application. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company for the United States Departments of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

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