Beamforming Enhanced Antenna for a Missile Electronic Receiver/Transmitter

To address need for innovative antenna arrays enabling continuous communications, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Beamforming Enhanced Antenna for a Electronic Receiver/Transmitter (BEAMER). BEAMER is a monolithic multiband conformal antenna. The innovation in BEAMER enables a reliable, low-SWaP (size, weight, and power), inexpensive, conformal multiband antenna structure that can conform to any space flight vechile.Phase I focuses on the conceptual design and prototype fabrication of a multiband conformal antenna array. POC will perform antenna and feed system design, spectrum and pattern tuning, and trade-space and constraints analysis during this phase to meet the RF characteristics in the targeted frequency bands. In Phase II, POC will fabricate a full-scale prototype for design verification, in terms of hardness, reliability, and performance, in a simulated environment.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))