SECTR: Seeker Cost Transformation

The Seeker Cost Transformation (SECTR) program seeks to develop novel weapon terminal sensing and guidance technologies and systems for air-launched, air-delivered weapons. SECTR technologies would enable weapons to acquire fixed and moving targets with only minimal external support; achieve high navigation accuracy in a GPS-denied environment; and be low size, weight, and cost. The program aims to develop technologies and systems applicable to a wide range of weapons and missions, such as small unit operations, suppression of enemy air defenses, precision strike, and time-sensitive targets. The technical approach for the sensing and processing hardware will embrace both passive electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) sensors, which have evolved into very small and inexpensive devices in the commercial market, and a reconfigurable processing architecture. The program also seeks to develop a government-owned open architecture for the seeker with standardized interfaces between components (both hardware and software). Technologies developed under this program would transition to the military Services.