Introduction
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Board of Governors (BoG) plans to fund the development of challenge problems and solutions in technical areas of AESS. The challenge problems are intended to stimulate excitement about research problems of interest to members of AESS. Following the development and publication of a challenge problem, IEEE AESS BoG will solicit proposals for the investigation and development of solutions to the challenge problem. It anticipated that four or five proposals for solutions will be funded and those solutions will be presented at an IEEE AESS sponsored conference in a special session. It anticipated that solutions will have varying levels of complexity and the multiple solutions will lead to confidence in the technical solutions and implementations in real-world systems.
The IEEE AESS BoG has elected radar systems for its first challenge problem as that is the most active area of research in the AESS community. This request for proposals (RFPs) is only for development of a challenge problem in the area of radar systems. The challenge problems may be software, hardware, or a mixture of software and hardware. The specific topic and implementation details of the challenge problem are left to the proposer.
It anticipated that four proposals for solutions will be funded through future RFPs and those solutions will be presented at an IEEE Radar conference in a special session. It anticipated that solutions will have varying levels of complexity and the multiple solutions will lead to confidence in the technical solutions and implementations in real-world radar systems.
The RFP is organized as follows. Section 2 gives the objectives of this first challenge problem, while Section 3 provides the program details and schedule. Section 4 defines the format and requested content for the proposal. Section 5 summarizes the selection criteria and Section 6 provides concluding remarks.
