SBIR/STTR Research Award
Extremely Wideband Antenna for Airborne and Land Mobile Communications Systems
Award amount
$749,323Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- FIRST RF CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2009-04-30
- Contract end date
- 2010-10-30
- UEI
- LMF7NPZN43Z6
- Solicitation number
- 2007.2
- Topic code
- N07-138
Research abstract
The goal of this Phase II effort is to provide a continuous bandwidth from 225-1850 MHz from a single antenna aperture that is mechanically suitable for use on a high-speed airborne platform. During this Phase II effort FIRST RF will examine a single aperture approach as well as a multi-aperture approach. Both approaches will be packaged in a blade style radome that can be mounted on a high-speed airborne platform. In the multi-aperture approach FIRST RF will also explore the extension of the frequency band into the VHF band (30-174 MHz). This will be done primarily through material loading trades. These material loading trades will be used to examine the miniaturization of the antenna thereby reducing the profile of the antenna and making it even more suitable for installation on a high-speed airborne platform.
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.
- Extremely Wideband Antenna for Airborne and Land Mobile Communications Systems
- Extremely Wideband Antenna for Airborne and Land Mobile Communications Systems
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