SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient HF Transmit Antennas Utilizing Platform Coupling and Reconfigurable Aperture
Award amount
$748,907Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VIRTUAL EM INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2016-09-01
- UEI
- XVVMZSCBJJS6
- Solicitation number
- 2012.0
- Topic code
- N12A-T015
Research abstract
Virtual EM is proposing a solution for achieving electrically small high-efficiency VHF transmit antennas suitable for use on medium size Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In the proposed approach, maximum use of the UAVs airframe for the antenna improves radiation efficiency while dynamic reconfiguration of the antenna aperture provides frequency tuning and hence lower noise floor. Feasibility has been demonstrated via simulations and limited prototyping in Phase I, and a fully functional prototype on a flight-worthy UAV will be built in Phase II.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Reconfigurable Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
- RF Channel Sounder for Automatic Acquisition of the Wireless Environment.
- A Massively Parallel Scalable Processor for Order of Magnitude Increase in Acceleration of Photonic Simulations
- Remote Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary and Neurological Signals
- Low-Cost Radar Antenna with Electronic Elevation Scan
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,801,861. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce