SBIR/STTR Research Award
Digitally Assisted Wideband power amplifier for Navigation (DAWN)
Award amount
$1,749,675Program and phase
SBIR · Phase II – Direct to Phase IIAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- MAXENTRIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-07-31
- Contract end date
- 2025-10-24
- UEI
- JL9DW4GMNJ53
- Solicitation number
- X20.R
- Topic code
- AF20R-DCSO1
Research abstract
To meet the demands of Air Force customers and end-users, the MaXentric / Prof. Aly Fathy team proposes the DAWN (Digitally Assisted Wideband power amplifier for Navigation), which uses envelope tracking technology to enhance efficiency of a radiation hardening Gallium Nitride (GaN) solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) for the next generation global positioning system (GPS) navigation payloads. During Phase II work, the team will demonstrate 1-2 GHz and >400 Wpeak SSPA with the drain efficiency of >50% (single carrier) and >40% (multi-carrier). The out-of-band emission in the radio astronomy bands will be satisfied with the ITU-R standard. The developed SSPA is useful for anti-jamming and anti-spoofing of position, navigation and timing (PNT) services.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Integrated Circuit Engineering for Chip-Level Obfuscation Using Diverse Suppliers (ICE-CLOUDS)
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- ARMOR (Advanced Radiation Material for Optimized Range)
- REFINE (RF Emitter Filtering for Intelligent Nonlinear Elimination)
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Research funding history
210 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2026). Reported award amounts total $112,803,093. 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