SBIR/STTR Research Award
Conformal Appliqué Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aircraft
Award amount
$99,241Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- Sciperio, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-09-07
- Contract end date
- 2007-03-07
- UEI
- GKUVEK4HMMZ8
- Solicitation number
- 2006.1
- Topic code
- SOCOM06-002
Research abstract
An antenna system is proposed for the purpose of FM, TV-VHF, and TV-UHF PSYPOS broadcast applications. The antenna system incorporates a radiating structure that is small, light weight, and conformal. A circularly polarized beam is broadcast from an aircraft towards nadir, illuminating the region below the craft with a horizontally-polarized signal, yielding polarizations pointing in both the North-South and East-West directions. This approach helps minimizes polarization related fading as the relative positions of the transmitter and receiver change. Antenna bandwidth is 2:1 at minimum, allowing one antenna to cover each of the three bands in its entirety. This low-cost, highly manufacturable antenna incorporates sheet metal components and will easily operate at the desired 2kW input levels.
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.
- Additively Manufactured Electronics for Extreme Environmental Conditions
- Recycling Enabled Autonomous Cell Culture System
- Organoid Research and Automated Characterization for Live Electrophysiology (ORACLE)
- High Reliability Interconnects for Advanced Integrated Circuits in Additive Manufactured Electronics
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Conformal Appliqué Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aircraft
- Conformal Appliqué Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aircraft
- Conformal Appliqué Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aircraft
- Conformal Appliqué Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aircraft
Research funding history
40 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2025). Reported award amounts total $11,241,921. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation