SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ground-Air-Space (GAS) Router
Award amount
$119,634Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- NOVA ENGINEERING, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2003-12-12
- Contract end date
- 2004-06-12
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2003.2
- Topic code
- A03-116
Research abstract
The Ground-Air-Space (GAS) Router program will specify, design and demonstrate a UAV communications payload allowing for ground-air-ground relay, as well as satellite communication access without the need for a satellite ground terminal. The program objective is to demonstrate a low-cost, airborne satellite relay functionality in advance of JTRS Cluster 5 and WIN-T availability. The prototype system utilizes COTS components to prove the concept of applying the AODV wireless routing protocol to the airborne SATCOM relay platform. The target payload routes traffic intelligently among ground-to-UAV, UAV-to-UAV and UAV-to-satellite hops to minimize an overall route cost function.
Technology keywords
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