SBIR/STTR Research Award
Miniature GPS Antenna System
Award amount
$149,898Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Applied EM Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-12-01
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-01
- UEI
- GNB2M2TJGSA5
- Solicitation number
- 2004.3
- Topic code
- N04-265
Research abstract
Current anti Jam GPS antennas are approximately 14" in diameter making them too large for several platforms of interest such as unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles and fighter aircrafts. A modified version of this antenna array is significantly smaller in size (seven inch diameter) but incorporates only 4 antenna elements, thus, limiting its nulling capabilities under severe jamming conditions. To alleviate these limitations, Applied EM is proposing a miniature GPS antenna that would allow for anti-jamming capability (with 5 to 7 elements) to acquire accurate PVT (Position, Velocity and Time) in a hostile RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) environment. This will improve GPS reliability for situation awareness in battlefield scenarios and will further make GPS a viable solution for precision approach and landing. A second focus of our proposal is to enhance the antenna electronics using -time adaptive processing (STAP) or space-frequency adaptive processing (SFAP) with optimum performance.
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.
- Innovative Physics-based Modeling Tool for Application to Passive Radio Frequency Identification System on Rotorcraft
- Low Profile, Very Wide Bandwidth Aircraft Communications Antennas Using Advanced Ground-Plane Techniques
- GPS-Iridium Anti-Jam (AJ) Antenna Systems for Air Vehicle and Sea Vehicle Platforms
- Antenna Placement Optimization on Large, Airborne, Naval Platforms
- CRPA for GNSS
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2015). Reported award amounts total $21,013,410. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration