SBIR/STTR Research Award
Software Modem for Kill Vehicle & IFICS
Award amount
$749,894Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- NOVA ENGINEERING, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2006-08-24
- Contract end date
- 2008-08-23
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- MDA04-066
Research abstract
Nova Engineering proposes a Flexible, Interoperable Spaceborne Transceiver (FIST) program for the development of a software definable radio (SDR) modem for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV). A programmable hardware architecture is proposed that affords the benefits of SDR reconfigurability under the rigorous EKV environmental and size/weight/power constraints. Waveforms from multiple missile defense products will be identified for porting to the standardized flight modem. Phase II will result in a programmable modem capability demonstration using commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) reconfigurable logic and a production plan for integrating critical elements on a radiation-hardened system-on-a-chip (SoC).
Technology keywords
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