McQ Develops Sophisticated Sensor Technologies for Government Applications

McQ has signed 11 contracts with the Government to develop advanced sensors that cater to various government departments such as Air Force, Navy, Army, DARPA etc.

The U.S. Government has awarded a five-year Multiple Award task Ordering Contract (MATOC) to McQ projects to deliver Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) such as OmniSense, Omniwatch and iScout.

For the U.S. Army projects, McQ is working on the Phase II Small Business Innovation Research to design a sophisticated Micro Radar that would detect vehicles or personnel and will be combined with munitions systems and UGS. The Phase I is aimed at creating an Advanced Ruggedized Instrumented Projectile, which will evaluate the body armour performance. Next is the Networked Munitions Visual Overwatch System program, which will require a technology for monitoring the munitions protected area by capturing the images of any target entering this area. The last project for the Army is the design of a Non-Lethal Alert System, which will issue alerts to the personnel when they enter a restricted military area.

McQ is working on three research and development projects for the U.S. Navy. The first project is the development of a Strain Analysis and Monitoring System, which will be used for supervising the structural status of the ship’s infrastructure. The next project is the Structural Health Analysis and Monitoring Tool Set to analyse the effect of stress on the various structures of the ship with the help of the live and long term stress displays. The last project is the Ship Shock Disconnect System Phase that will electrically isolate the ship systems at the time of shock testing.

For the Air Force research and development projects, McQ is working on an Omnishock device that will withstand and measure high “G” shocks and record the digital data from numerous sensors. Another project is the Wireless Time Synchronized Event Control, which will provide time measurements over a large geographic area.

Other projects which the McQ is working on are Omniwatch, a high resolution thermal IR video surveillance system, algorithms for Acoustic Target Detection and Classifications and Integration of UGS and UAS platforms.