RF Reception in Highly Reflecting Environments

XL Scientific, LLC, dba Verus Research is pleased to respond to the Air Force Phase-I SBIR solicitation AF191-033 entitled “Radio Frequency (RF) Reception in Highly Reflective Environments�. Under this solicitation, the Air Force is seeking the development, demonstration and deployment of a robust, stable, reliable, and scalable receive-telemetry-link capability utilizing broadband RF communications from severely constrained transmitters in highly reflecting environments, such as large metal vacuum chambers. Successfully addressing this requirement demands an in-depth, multi-disciplinary understanding spanning several technical domains- namely, the physics of broadband, modulation-specific, RF propagation within highly reflective environments that exhibit severe multipath, fading and Doppler spreading; the utilization of novel bandwidth-efficient modulation waveforms, channel coding techniques, and advanced channel equalization signal processing algorithms that are more resilient to rapidly time-varying RF fading channels; the design, modeling and fabrication of miniaturized self-contained RF transmitters on host platforms with severely limited real-estate; and the ruggedization of these RF transmitters to withstand low vacuum and extremely high-G environments. As we elucidate in our proposal, the Verus Research team offers a physics-based, risk-mitigated, holistic technical solution to meet the Air Force’s requirements through a confluence of unrivaled subject matter expertise (SME) and demonstrated prior capabilities in these multi-disciplinary domains.