SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Cost Radar Antenna with Electronic Elevation Scan
Award amount
$140,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VIRTUAL EM INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-26
- Contract end date
- 2020-12-22
- UEI
- XVVMZSCBJJS6
- Solicitation number
- 20.1
- Topic code
- N201-029
Research abstract
Virtual EM propose a passive electronically steered array (PESA) design to replace the current AN/SPS-49, which is expected to address all of the requirements of this program. The proposed solution is in the form of a high-power-capable, electronically-reconfigurable reflectarray antenna that employs polarization-rotation (PR) phase shifting to achieve wideband, 2-bit phase quantization for beam scanning. Multiple simultaneous beams with beam-shaping (to achieve the required cosec2 pattern) are supported by the proposed design. The resulting antenna assembly (the section above the pedestal) is expected to meet all the size, weight, mechanical, and environmental specifications of the program.
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.
- Reconfigurable Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
- RF Channel Sounder for Automatic Acquisition of the Wireless Environment.
- A Massively Parallel Scalable Processor for Order of Magnitude Increase in Acceleration of Photonic Simulations
- Remote Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary and Neurological Signals
- Reduction of Predictable Spurs in the ADC outputs using AI
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Electronic Scanning Reflector for the AN/SPS-49
- Electronic Scanning Reflector for the AN/SPS-49
- SPS-49 Agile PESA (SAP)
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,801,861. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce