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DARPA Seeks to Advance Navigation Sensor Development Via LeviTAS Program
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DARPA Seeks to Advance Navigation Sensor Development Via LeviTAS Program

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a disruption opportunity, or DO, to solicit research concepts related to micromechanical oscillators for positioning and navigation applications.

DARPA seeks to demonstrate an anchor-less microsystem that can simultaneously reach heavy mass and high sensing bandwidth in a compact form factor under the Levitated and Trapped Accurate microSystems, or LeviTAS, DO, according to a presolicitation notice published Tuesday.

The LeviTAS program has a total award value of up to $1.2 million and is composed of two phases: feasibility study and proof of concept.

The initiative will use advances in microelectromechanical systems transducers and materials to address the mass x trap-frequency limitation in existing platforms as part of efforts to advance the development of a small-scale navigation sensor.

DARPA will support prototype projects by awarding other transaction agreements.

Responses are due Feb. 15.