Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence: details of successful projects (Phase 2)
Published 24 April 2024
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Advanced Material Development Ltd
Amount: £392,605
Description: Their solution introduces advanced nano-scale Radar Absorbing Material (nRAM) at the manufacturing stage of offshore windfarms, ensuring RF absorption is integrated into the base materials of offshore windfarms.
Saab Technologies UK Ltd
Amount: £599,692
Description: To incorporate Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques into air defence radar, providing a trusted air surveillance picture in noisy and cluttered environments.
Trelleborg Applied Technologies
Amount: £600,000
Description: Their solution is to deliver Frame (Full Radar Absorbing Materials and Equipment) to mitigate wind turbine radar interference.
Thales UK Ltd (Project 1)
Amount: £481,019
Description: To design and demonstrate multistatic, staring radar systems using a validated synthetic environment, to provide continuous all-weather air surveillance in and around windfarms.
Thales UK Ltd (Project 2)
Amount: £599,692
Description: A solution to synchronise two remote Holographic radars to demonstrate synchronised multi-static staring radar (MSAR), to reduce the impact of windfarm clutter and enhance detection and tracking performance.
LiveLink Aerospace
Amount: £505,938
Description: A solution involving multiple low-cost, multi-role, passive sensors on the nacelles of wind turbines that can transform the turbines from being a radar disrupter, to becoming the eyes and ears of an advanced air defence.
TWI Limited
Amount: £600,000
Description: A solution to develop a novel metasurface manufacturing method for the mitigation of radar clutter caused by windfarms.