SBIR/STTR Research Award
Product-Ready Iodine Clock Enabled by Low-Environmental Sensitivity Subsystems (PRICELESS)
Award amount
$5,249,991Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- VECTOR ATOMIC INC
- Proposal award date
- 2021-08-20
- Contract end date
- 2025-09-29
- UEI
- XKE2WAAMTLQ9
- Solicitation number
- HR001121S0007.I
- Topic code
- HR001121S0007-01
Research abstract
Vector Atomic will design and build a Product-Ready Iodine Clock Enabled by Low-Environmental Sensitivity Subsystems (PRICELESS). The simplified optical clock architecture resolves practical issues associated with dynamic operation, lifetime, autonomy, and cost. Such a clock can support rapid GPS acquisition and enable new capabilities including secure communications, geolocation of adversary emitters, multi-static radar, and long-dwell time/coherent imaging.
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.
- Gravimeter using Rubidium Atoms with Vibration-immunity for Maritime and Airborne Platforms (GRAVMAP)
- Tunable, Integrated Comb for Timing and Communications (TIC TAC)
- Iodine Clock with Acceleration- and Radiation-tolerance for Use in Space (ICARUS)
- Synthesis and Transmission of Absolutely Referenced Broadband Ultrastable Radiation for Synchronization and Timing (STARBURST)
- Miniature Iodine Nanosecond Timekeeper (MINT)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Tiqker Space Duty Acceleration
- Rack-Integrated, Mountable Rubidium Optical Clock
- 2-Photon Rb Optical Clock
Research funding history
24 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,832,971. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration