SBIR/STTR Research Award
Scalable Low-Cost AESA Transmitter with Phase-Only Nulling
Award amount
$224,642Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Recipient company
- TECHNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS
- Proposal award date
- 2019-08-07
- Contract end date
- 2020-05-06
- UEI
- XATZWN79QLD7
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- SCO182-002
Research abstract
Active electronically scanned antennas (AESA) for radar have the potential to be low-cost provided the array architecture is designed for production using commercially available manufacturing processes. Most modern radar antennas employ some form of nulling to reduce sidelobes in key steering directions. For a transmit AESA the most cost effective implementation is to use phase only to steer the main lobe as well as dynamically move the position of sidelobe nulls. Doing phase-only nulling in real time for a large AESA requires specialized optimization techniques to rapidly converge on a suitable transmit phase function. This project addresses optimization of array phase functions suitable for a low-cost, scalable active transmit antenna.
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.
- Techniques for Missile Defense
- Development of Advanced Radar Technologies for Missile Defense
- Nanosatellite Ground Station Communications Phased Array Antenna
- Conformal X-Bank Seeker for Semiactivee Guided Projectile
- Distributed Aperture Radar for Missile Defense
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Scalable Low-Cost AESA Transmitter with Phase-Only Nulling
- Low-Cost, Transmit-Only, Active Electronically Steered Array (AESA) with Phase-Only Nulling (1000-471)
- Scalable Low-Cost AESA Transmitter with Phase-Only Nulling
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2019). Reported award amounts total $2,517,873. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense