SBIR/STTR Research Award
Multi-Beam Optical Terminal for Tactical Operations (MOTTO)
Award amount
$124,665Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2017-12-01
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- 2017.1
- Topic code
- N171-089
Research abstract
The focus of this topic is the development of an FSO terminal capable of simultaneously communicating with multiple platforms over a full 360 degrees in azimuth. Single beam free space optical communication allows high-speed point-to-point data links. However, an optical terminal with two or more beams can act as a communications relay allowing the construction of optical communications networks. With this in mind, the Navy is funding the development of a multi-beam transmit/receive capability that can be deployed on USN/USMC platforms. The Navy has requested a terminal with at least two independently directed links which would allow the formation of a ring network, with up to as many as four independent terminals, to allow the construction of self-forming mesh networks.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Mars, Lunar Science and ISRU Prospecting
- Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
- Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications
- Space-Capable Laser for Mars/Lunar ISAM Robotic Vacuum Welding
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- MultiEye™ Free-Space Optical Communication System
- Multi-Beam, Free-Space Optical Terminal for Tactical Operations
Research funding history
173 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $69,654,466. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contractor profile
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