SBIR/STTR Research Award
Open Source Wide Band Software Defined Acoustic Modem
Award amount
$992,387Program 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
- QORTEK INC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-11-20
- Contract end date
- 2022-02-18
- UEI
- TLD8L3APDZM3
- Solicitation number
- HR001120S0019.I
- Topic code
- HR001120S0019-06
Research abstract
This direct to Phase II program will focus on developing an open source modem software toolbox based on adaptations to GNU Radio and existing extremely wideband width acoustic transducers powered by wideband gap GaN MOSFETs. The modem receive will be based on existing hydrophones designs with 1-10MHz receive electronics. Transducer and hydrophone designs for modem transmit and receive will employ QorTek’s state-of-art piezoceramic materials. QorTek plans to build and demonstrate a complete acoustic modem using the open source toolbox. It is planned that the Phase II effort will conclude with an in water demonstration of the system of the hardware and open source toolbox.
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.
- Scalable High Frequency Transmit/Receive Array for Multiple Unmanned Underwater Vehicle and Torpedo Applications
- Modernized Sonar Transmit Electronics
- Flow Exposed Conformal Array Acoustic Elements
- Second Order Acoustic Vector Sensors
- Open Architecture Telemetry First Level Multiplexer with Array Power Distribution
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Hydronet: An Open, Modular, and Programmable Underwater Modem
- Video-Capable Underwater Mobile Phone: Diver Phone
- Platform for Open SourcE Integrated Design ENvironment (POSEIDEN) Software Defined Acoustic Modem
- Hydronet: An Open, Modular, andProgrammable Underwater Modem
- The Integrated Reconfigurable Intercommunications and Sensing (IRIS) Platform
Research funding history
136 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1996–2025). Reported award amounts total $62,777,779. 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