Ultra Wideband Advanced Antenna Systems for Air Vehicles (1000-120)

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to leverage its expertise in conformal wideband antenna systems and magnetic and printed resistive materials to develop wideband conformal antenna systems operating from UHF to C-band. SI2’s proposed concept is to utilize its Direct Write and Laser Transfer conformal manufacturing technology and a novel wideband antenna concept. The resulting conformal, wideband, low profile antenna system will be platform independent and be capable of deployment on a number of DoD platforms to increase their performance capabilities. In the Phase I program I2 will demonstrate the performance of the wideband conformal antenna system through state-of-the-art modeling and simulations. The follow-on Phase II program will refine the design and develop a wideband antenna prototype. Testing of the prototype will validate the simulation and the conformal antenna system performance capabilities.