SBIR/STTR Research Award
Tunable, Integrated Comb for Timing and Communications (TIC TAC)
Award amount
$1,899,996Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- VECTOR ATOMIC INC
- Proposal award date
- 2025-09-28
- Contract end date
- 2027-09-29
- UEI
- XKE2WAAMTLQ9
- Solicitation number
- 23.C
- Topic code
- AF23C-T002
Research abstract
Under STTR topic F23C-T002, Vector Atomic and Harvard University will design and build a Tunable, Integrated Comb for Timing and Communications (TIC TAC)
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.
- Gravimeter using Rubidium Atoms with Vibration-immunity for Maritime and Airborne Platforms (GRAVMAP)
- Iodine Clock with Acceleration- and Radiation-tolerance for Use in Space (ICARUS)
- Synthesis and Transmission of Absolutely Referenced Broadband Ultrastable Radiation for Synchronization and Timing (STARBURST)
- Miniature Iodine Nanosecond Timekeeper (MINT)
- Tunable, Integrated Comb for Timing and Communications (TIC TAC)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Multilayer Vertically Integrated Cavity-less Comb Source
- Frequency-Agile Combs on the Tantala and Lithium Niobate Platform (FRACTAL)
- Tunable, Integrated Electro-optic Frequency Comb for Space-based Communications and Precision, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Applications
- Waveguide-based, high power, electro-optic frequency comb for use in space environments
- Broadband Optical Combs in Thin Film Lithium Niobate
Research funding history
24 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,832,971. 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