SBIR/STTR Research Award
Next Generation Portable Power Amplifier
Award amount
$999,991Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Special Operations Command
- Recipient company
- MAXENTRIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-02-08
- Contract end date
- 2020-02-07
- UEI
- JL9DW4GMNJ53
- Solicitation number
- 13.1
- Topic code
- SOCOM131-004
Research abstract
MaXentric proposes the GAU2x2 wideband power amplifier system. The design combines MaXentric’s wideband RF PA technology with advanced digital signal processing in a single small footprint package. This tight integration is made possible through the extremely high efficiency and low power dissipation. Since very little power is dissipated as heat, the package and heat sink size can be minimized. Integration has benefits in terms of cost and reproducibility as well. The RF PA requires no calibration or tuning allowing GAU2x2 modules to be directly plugged into systems out of the box. The system leads to a minimization of weight, heat and bulk. This allows for a single system to replace the multiple RF PAs currently carried by service members. During Phase II the GAU2x2system will be prototyped, tested and delivered.
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)
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