Torch Technologies, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: A11A-T002
Torch Technologies, Inc. — 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 $990,237 is consistent with substantial Phase II-scale effort; compare to related awards from the same agency.
- Topic code A11A-T002 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $990,237
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- A11A-T002
- Solicitation
- 11.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- AL
- Period
- 2016-09-21 → 2017-09-20
Description
It has recently been mathematically proven that optimal communication systems necessarily have chaotic waveforms.Perhaps surprisingly, any communication system that utilizes a simple linear matched filter to achieve optimal detection of a signal, received by way of a noisy channel, must transmit a chaotic waveform.Using the concept of “exactly-solvable” chaos, communication systems can be built that offer simplicity, small size, low cost and spread spectrum features.To realize these benefits, three key chaos-theoretic advances are fused to comprise a communication system.The first is exactly-solvable chaos itself; a continuous/discrete-time hybrid linear circuit having a well-defined basis pulse.The second is Hayes encoding; a method for exploiting the famous “sensitivity to initial conditions” feature of chaos to encode a message signal onto a waveform to be transmitted.The third is the Corron-Blakely matched filter; a filter designed to optimally detect symbolic sequences encoded on a transmitted chaotic waveform.In our hands, this technology has evolved from purely theory to hardware prototypes that convincingly demonstrate the feasibility and realizability of such communication systems at radio frequencies.It is the purpose of this proposed effort to advance this technology towards applications-oriented examples, suitable for already-identified potential early adopters.