SBIR/STTR Research Award
Influence of Long-range Ionospheric and Atmospheric Effects on Surveillance and Communication Systems
Award amount
$749,967Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-07-28
- Contract end date
- 2018-10-29
- UEI
- CBP3W28RNZB3
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- AF151-154
Research abstract
Abstract: Electromagnetic signals used in communications and sensor systems can be seriously impacted after propagation through a region of the atmosphere or ionosphere disturbed by turbulence.This work will develop new physics-based technology that calculates EM propagation from HF to laser frequencies, including the effects of turbulence with long correlation length in the direction of propagation.The work will combine the existing NWRA ray-trace code with a new 3D multiple phase screen calculation that will run on Air Force high power computers to achieve improvement by factors of 10 to 100 in spatial and temporal resolution.The end product will calculate realizations of the propagating EM field, including the effects of refraction, reflection, magneto-ionic coupling, and ionospheric and atmospheric turbulence.
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 Fidelity Sporadic E Model
- Nuclear Scintillation Mitigation by Matched Channel Filtering
- Nuclear Scintillation Mitigation by Matched Channel Filtering
- High-Frequency Ionospheric Visualization Environment (High-FIVE)
- Improved detection sensitivity, geolocation accuracy, and create novel GEOINT products for OTHR radar systems
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Modeling Impacts of Coherent and Random TID Structures on OTHR Performance
- Influence of Long-range Ionospheric and Atmospheric Effects on Surveillance and Communication Systems
- Influence of Long-range Ionospheric and Atmospheric Effects on Surveillance and Communication Systems
Research funding history
64 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1984–2024). Reported award amounts total $18,759,062. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration