SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced antennas for air vehicle flight test evaluation.
Award amount
$149,824Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- FIRST RF CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2009-05-14
- Contract end date
- 2010-07-11
- UEI
- LMF7NPZN43Z6
- Solicitation number
- 2009.1
- Topic code
- N091-041
Research abstract
Through this program, FIRST RF will apply a proprietary antenna technology already in qualification for a specific Low Observable (LO) weapons system. This technology promises to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of the design and manufacture of conformal antennas for weapons systems and other airframes. FIRST RF proposes a UHF-FTS antenna, combined S- and C-Band aperture, and a novel L-Band antenna for LINK-16. The proposed Phase I program is a feasibility study of applying this antenna technology to these three antennas. However, the technology can be readily applied to other antennas for other functions. Part of the Phase I process will be to explore other applications for the technology. We anticipate a significant reduction in the cost of weapons systems due to a reduction in the cost of antennas.
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.
- N251-001 Directional High Front to Back Ratio Low Frequency Antenna
- P24-036 Broadband Antenna Solution for Vehicle-Mounted EW Systems
- P24-029 Software Defined RadioHead
- P24-012 Deployable Antennas for Hypersonics
- P22-084 Scalable Directional Antenna Phase II Expansion
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ultra Wideband Advanced Antenna Systems for Air Vehicles (1000-198)
- Ultra Wideband Advanced Antenna Systems for Air Vehicles (1000-150)
- Advanced Concepts and Material Solutions for Conformal Antennas
- Advanced antennas for air vehicle flight test evaluation
- Advanced antennas for air vehicle flight test evaluation.
Research funding history
211 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $97,794,762. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration