Miniaturization of high average power, high peak power, wide bandwidth antennas

Verus Research is pleased to respond to the A16-123 Army Phase-II SBIR solicitation. To meet the Army’s Phase-II requirements in a risk-mitigated fashion, Verus Research will leverage its innovative “Ferengi” family-of-antennas technology which was conceived, designed, and experimentally demonstrated by Verus Research under the previous Army-funded Phase-I Base A16-123 SBIR effort. For the proposed Phase-II work plan, Verus Research will leverage our lessons learned from the Phase-I work to execute on an accelerated technology prototyping effort by quickly optimizing renditions of the high power Ferengi antenna concepts to meet the Army’s specific requirements for size, weight, frequency band, power handling, polarization, dispersion, and gain, utilizing our evolutionary Ferengi design-optimization work-flow algorithm. We will then fabricate an array of high peak power/average power Ferengi antenna elements utilizing novel mechanical fabrication techniques. We will then integrate, test and demonstrate the anticipated superior performance of these prototypes for high power excitations in coordination with the Army’s host HPM weapons systems integrator. In Phase-II, Verus Research will also execute on a robust technology commercialization plan to develop variants of our Ferengi family-of-antennas to develop antenna constructs and Ferengi arrays that can address technical capability gaps in other Department of Defense (DoD) mission areas.