SBIR/STTR Research Award
Nanosatellite Payloads for Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Award amount
$1,965,400Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- Space Micro Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-04-19
- Contract end date
- 2023-10-24
- UEI
- ED9EEK4ZRZG4
- Solicitation number
- 19.3
- Topic code
- SOCOM193-001
Research abstract
Space Micro, together with its partner, CACI National Systems and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) proposes to develop a space-qualified RF payload for nanosatellites that passively collects RF signals over a wide bandwidth, identifying signals of interest by their spectrum, captures and time stamps these signals of interest, and – alone or together with other satellites or ground-based assets geo-locates them. The payload hardware consists of a wideband Software Defined Radio (SDR), wideband antenna and accurate timing system. Using this hardware, CACI’s digital signal processing algorithms identify signals of interest. The payload, with stowed antenna fits in, and can be powered by a 16U CubeSat standard bus.
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.
- Optical communications in space enhanced with novel Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- High performance, AI-enabled, radiation hard, space computing platform for trusted autonomy
- Broadband Power Amplifier Hardware to Support RF Convergence
- Gimbal-less Free-Space Optical Communications Terminal with Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Compact Multi-sensor camera system with Artificial Intelligence with embedded AI for autonomous SSA/SDA
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Nanosatellite Payloads for Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- Nanosatellite Payloads for Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- Nanosatellite Payloads for Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- Nanosatellite Payloads for Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Research funding history
150 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2023). Reported award amounts total $58,449,422. 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, Department of Homeland Security