SBIR/STTR Research Award
Microfabricated Ka-band Monopulse Antenna with Electronically Commandable Polarization Diversity
Award amount
$749,886Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Nuvotronics, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-09-21
- Contract end date
- 2018-11-30
- UEI
- HL7JT5QBBTE7
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- AF151-105
Research abstract
Active millimeter wave seeker antennas with multi-polarization capability are of interest for current and future precision guided weapons. Heavy rainfall, ground clutter, and modern electronic countermeasures all present unique challenges for target detection and discrimination. We propose the development of an advanced multi-polarization seeker antenna targeting Ka band frequencies. The solutions developed on this SBIR program will enable highly adaptive weapons for various missions. Our approach merges together two enabling technologies that have been developed by Nuvotronics into a new type of seeker architecture. Dual polarized radiating elements and their associated feed network is fabricated in Nuvotronics unique PolyStrata process to enable state of the art antenna gain and efficiency, utilizing air-dielectric micro-coax.
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.
- High-Power S-band TR Module
- Compact Surface Mount Tuning Component for Tunable Filter Applications
- Wafer level Integration on PolyStrata(R) Interposer (WIPI) Phase II (17028)
- Covert and Dynamic Communications Arrays at V-Band Frequencies
- Compact Wideband Direction Finder
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
Research funding history
62 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2009–2018). Reported award amounts total $24,381,532. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce