James Reid Mullins
Engineering at Riley Rd, Huntsville, AL

5944281, Aug 31, 1999

Mar 9, 1998

9/036770

William C. Pittman - Huntsville AL
James H. Mullins - Huntsville AL
John B. Meadows - Huntsville AL

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC

F41G 732

244 312

The dual band millimeter-infrared fiber optics guidance data link presents nhanced seekers with the capability to see through cloud cover while exhibiting resolution that is adequate to strike high value targets. Such a seeker may use a bi-directional dual band data link in the form of a secure, high bandwidth optical fiber between the missile in flight and the ground station, offering the capability to transmit millimeter-infrared sensor data from the missile to the ground station and transmit missile guidance signals from the ground station to the missile over the same high bandwidth optical fiber. Both infrared and millimeter target signature data is made available in the ground station by the use of applicants' invention. Such availability not only provides the gunner with an additional capability to identify the target and thus avoid fratricide, but fusion of the infrared and millimeter data in the automatic target recognizer in the ground station provides an additional capability to classify and identify targets while preserving high-value components of the data link by their removal from the missile to the ground station.

5771016, Jun 23, 1998

Dec 5, 1997

8/986202

James H. Mullins - Huntsville AL
Ralph H. Halladay - Huntsville AL
Michael R. Christian - Owens Cross Rd. AL

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC

H01Q 322, H01Q 324, H01Q 326

342372

In a phased array radar, simultaneous beam steering and single-sideband mlation is accomplished in the phase shifters in response to phase control signals produced by the beam steering controller and input to the phase shifters. The beam steering controller produces the phase control signals from a pre-selected beam steering angle, a pre-selected radar intermediate frequency and a voltage representing the frequency error from incomplete compensation of the target motion (doppler) of the previous cycle of the radar. Using the phase shifters thusly eliminates the need for an expensive separate component, the single sideband modulator.