A team composed of Engineering Technology Inc. (ETI), a small business located in Orlando, Florida and the University of Central Florida, College of Optics and Photonics: Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), proposes to research advanced technologies that will improve Army capabilities to introduce light-weight, low-cost, high-fidelity targets and surrogate vehicles for use in gunnery training and sensor testing. UCF CREOL researchers recently demonstrated a capability to project a dynamic IR target image compatible with the new generation of thermal sights. Leveraging from the results of this research, ETI proposes to develop concept designs for multispectral targets for live fire gunnery training and sensor training that will demonstrate a significant signature fidelity improvement over the current state-of-the art. At the end of the Phase II program we will demonstrate a portable device capable of projecting multispectral targets of hostile vehicles on a live fire range
