Design Blueprint: A Quantum Illumination Ranging Head for Navigation in Clutter

Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24138585): Detecting and ranging a weakly reflecting object in bright background clutter is a problem where classical signals struggle, because the background overwhelms the return. Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.