SBIR/STTR Research Award
Electronically Steerable IFICS Data Terminal Antennas
Award amount
$99,956Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- TECOM INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-05-13
- Contract end date
- 2004-11-13
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- MDA04-062
Research abstract
Current IFICS Data Terminal (IDTs, ground stations) communications antennas are based on dish structures, which need to be pointed rapidly. The need for physical pointing is a constraint on communications availability and performance. Electronically steerable antennas would reduce the need for antenna repositioning allowing more rapid and frequent communication events. The ground based antenna should be capable of receiving and transmitting in a half-duplex fashion in the 20 to 22 GHz range for up and down links. The ground system needs to be capable of high power transmission, rapid steering, provide narrow beamwidths (~ 3 degrees or less), and low noise temperatures.
Technology keywords
Not reported