SBIR/STTR Research Award
Handheld Celestial Navigation System
Award amount
$149,926Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- ENGENIUSMICRO LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2021-02-24
- Contract end date
- 2021-08-26
- UEI
- JF8WG2W8RR53
- Solicitation number
- 20.3
- Topic code
- SOCOM203-002
Research abstract
Military navigation users employ a variety of systems for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). Of these systems, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has proven itself to be the most ubiquitous, useful, and universally available system providing a precise PNT solution. Given the fragility of GPS signals by means of jamming, and/or spoofing, the GPS denied environment is a real threat and requires alternative inertial aiding/updating sources of information to correct system drift. Celestial navigation is one such alternative that has been employed, but suffers from large form factors. EngeniusMicro and Kearfott Corporation propose miniaturizing the Kearfott Celestial Location & Attitude System (CLAS) and developing a reduced Size Weight and Power (SWaP) Micro-CLAS. This development effort would take a ready design in the CLAS and investigate the individual pieces to shrink not just the electronics but also the entire package allowing for a handheld celestial navigation system. The Phase I of the effort will investigate the feasibility of this approach.
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.
- Additive Cofired Ceramic Electronics for Space Systems (ACCESS)
- Additive Manufacturing Tools for Reverse Engineering?
- Manufacturing Innovations for Next-gen Technologies in hypersonic vehicles (MINT)
- Tethered Drone RF Optimized Nodal Element (T-DRONE)
- Compact Metamaterial-Enabled High Power Microwave Antennas
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Hand Held Celestial Navigation
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
- Handheld Celestial Navigation System
Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2025). Reported award amounts total $26,395,686. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy