Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: N112-170
Bascom Hunter 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.
- At $1,749,186, this is a large obligation for typical SBIR Phase sizing — worth reviewing for scope breadth and teaming opportunity.
- Topic code N112-170 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $1,749,186
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- N112-170
- Solicitation
- 11.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- LA
- Period
- 2022-07-20 → 2024-09-25
Description
Bascom Hunter Technologies, along with Rampart Communications, proposes a solution to the Navy's need for waveforms that are truly featureless for resilient Low Probability of Detection (LPD) and Low Probability of Interception (LPI) links, without compromising reliability, throughput, or performance. This solution is called Unitary Braid Division Multiplexing 2.0 (or UBDM 2.0) and is built on proprietary work done by Rampart Communications called UBDM 1.0 and Mulligan. UBDM is a software/firmware solution that takes baseband IQ (which is typically an identifiable, analyzable, and potentially exploitable constellation pattern) and converts it into a Gaussian distribution of points. This makes is exceptionally difficult to detect and nearly impossible to intercept. With UBDM 1.0, detection is possible (but extremely unlikely) as pilots and other synchronization components of the signal are not transformed. With UBDM 2.0, all aspects of the waveform will be transformed, and the result is truly chaotic. In this Phase 2, we will demonstrate UBDM 2.0 with a next generation All Digital Modem as well as existing SATCOM Modems.