WINCHESTER TECHNOLOGIES LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: A17-019
WINCHESTER TECHNOLOGIES LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
Phase II SBIR prototype / development signal
- Phase II is where Department of Defense funds deeper R&D after feasibility. Incumbents with Phase II history are serious competitors on adjacent topics.
- Use this award as past-performance context and to map customer organizations for STRATFI/TACFI-style transition planning.
- Obligated amount $1,000,000 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code A17-019 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,000,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- A17-019
- Solicitation
- 17.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2018-06-22 → 2020-11-25
Description
Built upon the progress in Phase I period, Winchester Technologies, LLC proposes to investigate practical magnetoelectric antennas during the Phase II period for different applications. State of the art antennas suffer from three major open challenges: (1) large antenna size, (2) antenna impedance mismatch; (3) ground plane effect. This is because state of the art antennas are based on oscillating electric currents in electrical conductor(s), which leads to large antenna sizes more than 1/10 of the electromagnetic (EM) wavelength. The proposed acoustically actuated ME antennas solves all three open challenges at the same time. The PI’s are the first and only team that has demonstrated ultra-compact acoustically actuated RF magnetoelectric antennas with their size comparable to the acoustic wavelength, instead of their electromagnetic wavelength. Since acoustic wavelength is ~10-5 of electromagnetic wavelength, these magnetoelectric antennas are much more compact than state of the art compact antennas with excellent antenna impedance matching. In addition, these magnetoelectric antennas use acoustically driven magnetic currents, not electric currents, for radiation, thus are conformal antennas immune from ground plane effect. The end goal of Phase II will be to deliver practical ME antennas for both military and civilian applications.