SBIR/STTR Research Award
Nanosatellite to Standard Army Handheld Radio Communications System
Award amount
$562,414Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- TETHERS UNLIMITED, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-11-06
- Contract end date
- 2014-11-06
- UEI
- FHC2EKAPYU47
- Solicitation number
- 2012.1
- Topic code
- A12-067
Research abstract
TUI proposes to complete the development of two novel technologies that will enable pico-satellites in LEO to efficiently close the link with standard issue handheld radios on the ground. The first technology is a dual-band software-defined radio (SDR) that will provide UHF SATCOM to soldiers on the ground and a unified S-band link for backhaul and spacecraft command and control. SDR-based processing will support multiple modes of operations to provide robust and reliable links, multi-user access, cognitive radio operations, and other advanced operating capabilities. The second technology is a deployable multi-band antenna with a range-compensating radiation pattern designed to provide a uniform power density to the entire view of the Earth from a Nadir pointing LEO spacecraft. Together, these two component technologies will provide a high performance communications capability to the US Army"s dismounted soldiers.
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.
- Resin Additive Manufacturing Processed Thermal Protection Systems (RAMP TPS)
- HyperBus Cargo Platform
- Versatile Hot-Swappable Robotic Interface
- Gimbal Mechanism for Extreme Environments
- Structural Electronics Quasi-Additive-Manufacturing (SEQAM)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- SWIFT-TacSATCOM :: Tactical UHF and K-Band SATCOM
- Nanosatellite to Standard Army Handheld Radio Communications System
- Nanosatellite to Standard Army Handheld Radio Communications System
Research funding history
86 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2019). Reported award amounts total $32,140,882. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense