SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Data Rate Acoustic Modem Based on Piezocomposite Arrays
Award amount
$79,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Materials Systems Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-10-28
- Contract end date
- 2014-08-28
- UEI
- PJE4L1Q8N2B5
- Solicitation number
- 2013.2
- Topic code
- N132-138
Research abstract
Through this effort, Materials Systems Inc. and its teams, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Woods Hole Analytical Sciences, will develop an Ultra High Frequency (0.5-1 MHz) Acoustic Modem for transmitting information through ocean acoustic channels at bit rates of approximately 500 Kbps over ranges from 10 to 100 meters. The MSI concept utilizes its expertise in design and development of piezocomposite transducer arrays to fabricate a modem with compact packaging, wide bandwidths, and a variety of directional characteristics. In this program, the MSI team will design and simulate a UHFAM as well as build a sub-scale prototype and perform in-water testing.
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.
- Passive Acoustic Subwavelength Resonator (PASR) Phase II Proposal
- Advanced Manufacturing of Piezoelectric Textured Ceramic Materials
- Non-Towed Broadband Acoustic Source
- Passive Acoustic Subwavelength Resonator (PASR)
- Non-towed Broadband Acoustic Source
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High Data Rate Acoustic Communication
- High Data Rate Acoustic Communication
- Novel Carrierless High-Data-Rate Acoustic Communications
Research funding history
56 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2023). Reported award amounts total $19,451,582. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration