SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reconfigurable Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
Award amount
$137,342Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VIRTUAL EM INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-06-10
- Contract end date
- 2026-01-06
- UEI
- XVVMZSCBJJS6
- Solicitation number
- 25.1
- Topic code
- N251-010
Research abstract
Virtual EM is proposing a feasibility study to investigate two manufacturing methods to use CNTs to realize antenna patterns on curved polymer shells such as pods and UAV airframes. First is an additive manufacturing technology to print CNTs on the surface of the structure while the other is to embed antenna patterns into polymer matrix just under the skin without degrading structural integrity of the polymer shell.
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.
- RF Channel Sounder for Automatic Acquisition of the Wireless Environment.
- A Massively Parallel Scalable Processor for Order of Magnitude Increase in Acceleration of Photonic Simulations
- Remote Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary and Neurological Signals
- Low-Cost Radar Antenna with Electronic Elevation Scan
- Reduction of Predictable Spurs in the ADC outputs using AI
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
- FALCON: Flexible Antennas Leveraging Conductive Optimized Networks
- Additive Manufacture of Conformal Antennas for UAV
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,801,861. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce