SBIR/STTR Research Award
V-Band Crosslink Solid-State Power Amplifiers
Award amount
$149,925Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- MAXENTRIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-03-06
- Contract end date
- 2020-12-06
- UEI
- JL9DW4GMNJ53
- Solicitation number
- 19.2
- Topic code
- AF192-020
Research abstract
The US Air Force has a demand for a compact lightweight high-power solid-state power amplifier for V-band crosslinks. In response to this need, MaXentric is proposing a quasi-optical V-band SSPA with power scalability codenamed SOCRATES. During the proposed Phase I effort, MaXentric will leverage its experience developing a variety of satellite high power amplifiers with highly efficient DSP to thoroughly exercise the system tradespace through design, simulation, and power amplifier architecture testing. This effort will culminate in a detailed prototype blueprint and will be complemented with a Phase I hardware demonstration. SOCRATES will provide the Air Force with high efficiency and high linearity SATCOM crosslink solution that meets future airborne communication needs.
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.
- Integrated Circuit Engineering for Chip-Level Obfuscation Using Diverse Suppliers (ICE-CLOUDS)
- MaXEdge –Edge-Deployed Communication and Emitter Detection
- Enhanced Multi Band Reconfigurable Communications for Small Unmanned Systems Secure Radio Terminal (EMB-RCSUS SRT)
- ARMOR (Advanced Radiation Material for Optimized Range)
- REFINE (RF Emitter Filtering for Intelligent Nonlinear Elimination)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- V-Band Crosslink SSPA (SOCRATES)
- V-Band Crosslink Solid-State Power Amplifiers
- V-Band Crosslink Solid-State Power Amplifiers
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