To obtain accurate target information in a radar system, clutter or interference signals must first be effectively removed for target detection. In this paper, the signal is projected onto a constrained orthogonal subspace, so that a minimum variance optimal detector is transformed into an unconstrained detector. The proposed algorithm is equivalent to the conventional optimal detector algorithm, and th algorithm structure shows that the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization can be achieved to obtain the fast convergence. The performance of the proposed method was observed by simulation experiments.