SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Multi-Band Electronic Surveillance Measure (ESM) Antenna
Award amount
$149,633Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Spectra Research, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-12-22
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-22
- UEI
- ZWGHMLVFLK16
- Solicitation number
- 2004.3
- Topic code
- N04-263
Research abstract
The Spectra-GTRI team proposes an innovative approach to optimizing weight on UAVs by integrating the antenna systems directly into the UAV wing or fuselage mechanical structure. By carving slot antennas of various sizes out of the wing structure, an array of bandwidths can be accommodated. Employing pairs or sets of antennas across the wingspan enables the use of direction finding to determine RF emission source bearing. The dual use of a structural feature as a sensor offers an innovative approach to minimizing weight on ESM platforms. Employing GTRI's advances in fragmented aperture and MetaMaterials research, a wing, tail, or fuselage of a UAV can be utilized as a radiating antenna without loss of structural integrity.
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.
- Dual Mode Tag (DMT) Proof-of-Concept Device
- Dual Mode Tag (DMT) Proof-of-Concept Device
- Dual Mode Tag (DMT) Proof-of-Concept Device
- Broadband, lightweight, low profile passive phased array
- Innovative Wideband Antenna Technology for Ultimate Consolidated Submarine Mast
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Multi-Band Electronic Surveillance Measure (ESM) Antenna
- Conformal Ultra Wideband ESM Antenna
- Advanced Multi-Band Electronic Surveillance Measure (ESM) Antenna
Research funding history
101 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2016). Reported award amounts total $26,619,856. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services