SBIR/STTR Research Award
Navigation Assist THz Imaging Radar (NATIR)
Award amount
$729,988Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- COLORADO ENGINEERING INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2011-09-22
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- D9RCJ7A3A8Y3
- Solicitation number
- 2010.2
- Topic code
- A10-037
Research abstract
Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI), with its teammates, University of Colorado and Boeing, proposes to leverage its collective expertise with radar systems design, Electromagnetics (EM) modeling, antenna design, advanced processing architectures, and radar signal processing algorithms to research, identify, and architect a short range THz imaging radar for aircraft navigation. The THz-gap extends from the 100GHz Millimeter Wave (MMW) frequencies to the far infrared 10 THz frequency. This band of the EM spectrum is unique in that the absorption primarily due to water molecules is significant. For this reason, there has not been a lot of development of THz technologies beyond very short range: test / measurement equipment spectroscopy equipment and recently airport scanners. The team is architecting a Navigation Assist THz Imaging Radar (NATIR) for Army aircraft applications.
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.
- SWaPP-Efficient High-Precision Analog Ruggedized Conversion System
- High-Efficiency Long-Range Wireless Power Transfer
- High-Efficiency Wideband Linear Amplifier (HEWLA)
- High-Efficiency Wideband, Linear RF Amplifier for Naval Communications
- SPS-49 Agile PESA (SAP)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Active Terahertz Imager for Covert Navigation Assist
- Active Terahertz Imager for Covert Navigation Assist
- Active Terahertz Imager for Covert Navigation Assist
- Navigation Assist THz Imaging Radar (NATIR)
Research funding history
66 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2021). Reported award amounts total $27,212,008. 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 Energy