FIRST RF Corporation SBIR Award Summary

Research & Development Highlights: FIRST RF has been awarded over 160 research and development programs. Over 70 of these awards were full and open competion by the government or primes. Since 2003 FIRST RF has won 55 Phase I SBIR programs and have successfully transitioned more than 33 of these to Phase II programs. We have also transitioned 6 Phase II SBIR projects to Phase III and full scale production. In addition to our government funded developments, FIRST RF supports rapid prototype and commercialization of our products for large scale manufacturing. These company funded projects focus on innovative products that offer a substantial improvement in performance and capabilities mitigating cost, schedule, and system performance risk to our customers.

The table below summarizes all FIRST RF SBIR awards since 2003.

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SBIR #	Sponsor	Phase I	Phase II	Phase III	Topic Description
A03-080	Army	X	X	X	Small Multi-decade Communications and Electronic Warfare (EW) Antenna
AF03-138	Air Force	X	X		Bistatic Alitemter Concept (a passive, GPS-based fuze relying on GPS ground reflections)
AF03-139	Air Force	X	X		Precise Guidance - No Seeker (exploits GPS ground reflections for munitions guidance)
AF03-143	Air Force	X			Munitions Research SAR For AFRL MNG
AF03-204	Air Force	X	X	X	Multiple Aperture Beam Tracking
AF03-010	Air Force	X	X		Narrow Band High Power Antennas for Airborne Platforms
AF03-211	Air Force	X			Innovative Antenna Tracking for Mobile Platforms
N04-004	Navy	X			Wide-band 2-D Electronically Beam-Steering Radiating Aperture
AF04-164	Air Force	X	X		Unitary Warhead Airburst Fuzing Capability
SB041-023	DARPA	X	X	X	Physically Small VHF SAR Antenna
AF04-216	Air Force	X	X		Multi-Band/Beam Module
NOAA 8.1.10R	NOAA	X	X		Advanced Microwave Antenna for Airborne Soil Moisture and Salinity Mapping
N04-902	Navy	X	X		Anti-Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) Technologies
N04-242	Navy	X			Rugged, Low-Cost, Nondielectric Missile Radome
N04-236	Navy	X			Enhanced Data Link Performance in Multipath and Interference Environments
A05-046	Army	X	X		Distributed Antenna Application for Body Worn Platforms
AF06-231	Air Force	X	X	X	Conformal Loadbearing Antenna Structures
SOCOM06-002	SOCOM	X			Conformal Applique Antennas for UAVs
N06-106	Navy	X	X	X	SATCOM OTM Antenna for the EFV
A06-110	Army	X	X		Compact, Wideband, Single or Dual Antenna Geolocation
AF071-059	Air Force	X	X	X	Planar Wideband Phased-Array Element For VHF RADAR
AF071-147	Air Force	X	X		Compact Broadband Antennas
N07-138	Navy	X	X		Navy SATCOM/LOS
A07-109	Army	X	X		Blue Force Communications Compatible Antenna System
MDA07-036	MDA	X	X		Electrical Interconnect Technologies for MDA Phased Array Radars
N08-018	Navy	X			Cylindrical/Ogive Phased Array Transmitter for Jammers
AF081-031	Air Force	X	X		Lightweight Wideband Beamformer
N07-166	Navy	X			OTM High Frequency Antenna
N08-174	Navy	X	X		Interoperability and compatibility techniques for Counter Radio controlled IED Electronic Warfare (CREW) and other Radio Frequency Communication
N08-175	Navy	X	X		Wideband Conformal Antenna
A08-126	Army	X	X		Improved mini Ku band antenna for TCDL
A08-104	Army	X			Army Embedded Meta-Material Antenna
A08-112	Army	X	X		Conformal Omni-Directional antenna for UAVs
AF083-147	Air Force	X			Conformal Antenna for Jamming IEDs
A08-084	Army	X	X		High Isolation Transmit and Receive Antenna
AF083-164	Air Force	X			Automated Resource Management and Beam Scheduling of Antenna Network for Space Operations Support
MDA08-030	MDA	X	X		Calibration Techniques for very large phased arrays
SB082-051	DARPA	X			Efficient Small Antennas
N091-041	Navy	X	X		Advanced Antennas For Navy Flight Testing
N092-102	Navy	X	X		Broadband Lightweight low Profile Passive Phased Array
A09-071	Army	X	X		Window Mounted UHF Antenna
A2-3130	Army	X	X		Distributed Antenna Applications for Body Worn Platforms
N08-226	Navy	X	X		Efficient Wideband Antenna for JTRS Ground Mobile Radio (GMR) Communications Systems
N093-186	Navy	X			MH-60S Vertical Replenishment Object Proximity Warning System
AF093-061	Air Force	X	X		Variable Coverage Wide Field of View Satellite Antenna
AF093-138	Air Force	X	X		Improvements in Synthetic Aperture Radar through multi-band imaging
MDA09-015	MDA	X			Radar Multi-Beam Receive Arrays
N101-020	Navy	X	X		Multi-Channel Wideband Antenna Array Manifold
N101-104	Navy	X			Cosite Mitigation in Phased Arrays
N101-148	Navy	X			Develop Radar Radome Materials, Processes and Test Methodology
A10-097	Army	X			Enhanced Field-Expedient Body-wearable Antenna
AF103-172	Air Force	X			Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aircraft System
AF103-187	Air Force	X			Antennas for GNSS Handheld Receivers
AF103-075	Air Force	X			E-Band Gimbaled Dish Antenna
AF103-056	Air Force	X			Modular Antenna System for Tracking Satellites by Adaptation of Existing Terminals

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