MATRIX RESEARCH INC

Dayton, OH · Defense · Private

Distributed coherent radar system using software-defined radios for autonomous weapons targeting and tracking

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · matrixresearch.com

Sector: Defense
Headquarters: Dayton, OH
Total capital: $155M

Federal grants: $12.6M; 10 awards · 2015–2026; Rank in peer group#11 of 94
Private capital raised: None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts: $142M; 75 awards · Defense; Rank in Defense#68 of 1442
Granted patents: None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

Latest events

Jun 2026Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Radio Frequency Passive Technology For Ubiquitous Research And Engineering$1.2M
Jun 2026Federal contractDefense · Radio Frequency Passive Technology For Ubiquitous Research And Engineering$1.2M
Apr 2026Federal contractDefense · Phase I - AF256-CSO Low-cost Payloads For Electronic Warfare$180K
Mar 2026Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Phase I - AF256-CSO Low-cost Payloads For Electronic Warfare$180K
Jan 2026Federal contractDefense · Combat Identification Automatic Target Recognition Technology (catch) Call 02$2.5M
Dec 2025Federal contractDefense · Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (shield) Initial Order.$500
Sep 2025Federal contractDefense · Phantom Raven$2.8M

Show 78 earlier federal awards

Aug 2025Federal contractDefense · Architecture Refinement, Demonstration And Integration Systems -call 07 Science And Technology Applied RF Strategy$365K
May 2025Federal contractDefense · 3D Sar Atr In Contested Environments$140K
Sep 2024Federal contractDefense · Digital Beamforming Testbed$1.5M
Aug 2024Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Matrix SBIR II$6M
Aug 2024Federal contractDefense · Matrix SBIR II$6M
Jul 2024Federal contractDefense · See Section J Attached Titled: Distributed Coherent RADAR TO1 Soo$3.7M
Jul 2024Federal contractDefense · Research And Development Of Radio Frequency (RF) Sensor Technology, To Include Antenna, Microelectronic Hardware, Software, Firmware And Associated Algorithms In Lab And Flight Test Scenarios. Task Order 2 From Idiq FA865023D1028.$2M
May 2024Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Novel High Resolution Distributed RADAR Processing For Littoral And Open Ocean Environments (sea Leopard) Direct To Phase II SBIR$1.7M
May 2024Federal contractDefense · Novel High Resolution Distributed RADAR Processing For Littoral And Open Ocean Environments (sea Leopard) Direct To Phase II SBIR$1.7M
Sep 2023Federal contractDefense · Advanced Multifunction Cooperative Seeker Technology$596K
Jul 2023Federal contractDefense · Beyond Linear Processing$3.7M
Apr 2023Federal contractDefense · Dart 2$750K
Feb 2023Federal contractDefense · Wideband Integrated Digital-receivers For Electronic Intelligence Bands Using Advanced Next-generati$3.8M
Nov 2022Federal contractDefense · Multi-spectral Sensing Technologies Research & Development 3-IN-1$11.2M
Sep 2022Federal contractDefense · Pnt Hardware Model Validation$1M
Sep 2022Federal contractDefense · Advanced Multifunction Cooperative Seeker Technology$149K
Aug 2022Federal contractDefense · Distributed Airborne Coherence$8.6M
Mar 2022Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Weapon-Integrated Cooperative RF$970K
Jan 2022Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Distributed Airborne RF Teams (DART)$100K
Mar 2021Federal contractDefense · Small Munitions Advanced Seeker Handoff (smash)$1.9M
Dec 2020Federal contractDefense · Weapon-integrated Cooperative RF$49K
Jul 2020Federal contractDefense · Deep Transfer Learning$6.5M
Jun 2019Federal contractDefense · Millimeter-wave Digital Arrays Evaluation And Application Demonstration$1.6M
Mar 2019Federal contractDefense · Ddsmlot Task Order 12 - B-2 Risk Reduction$514K
Feb 2019Federal contractDefense · Precise-matrix Award$6.8M
Aug 2018Federal contractDefense · Design, Assessment, Verification, And Evaluation Of Subsystems$5.3M
Aug 2018Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Small Munitions Advanced Seeker Handoff (SMASH)$750K
May 2018Federal contractDefense · Low-observables Task Order 11$1.1M
Nov 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Development And Demonstration Of Supportable And Manufacturable Low Observable Techn's - New Task Order 10$1.2M
Aug 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Electronic Support Critical Experiment (esce)$1.3M
Aug 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf:: SBIR I-small Munitions Advanced Seeker Handoff (smash)$150K
May 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR II Enhancement Contract For Radio Frequency Traveling Wave Inspection Tool$1.1M
Mar 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Contested Environment Radio Frequency Exploitation&research (cerfer)$9.8M
Aug 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Dynamic Autonomous Target$1.6M
May 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Integrated Demonstrations And Evaluations Of Advanced Subsystems (ideas)$3.5M
Dec 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Cooperative RF Sensors$749K
Nov 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Multi-arm Antenna, Direction-finding And Detection Architecture For Wideband Geolocation (maddawg)$10.3M
Nov 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Baseband Digital At Every Element Mimo Experimental RADAR$1.3M
Sep 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Independent Measurement Of Performance Of Arrays At Commercial Timescales$7.1M
Jul 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Ddsmlot Ground Shroud System$588K
Jun 2015Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Cooperative RF Sensors$749K
Jun 2015Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Robust and Reliable Exploitation for Ground Moving Target Detection, Geolocation and Tracking Using Synthetic Aperture Radar$150K
Jun 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Ddsmlot - B2 Radome Characterization$2.1M
May 2015Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Novel Signal Processing for Airborne Passive Synthetic Aperture Radar$748K
May 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Ddsmlot Low Observables To 0007 B2 Resistive Card Application&repair$1.4M
Apr 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Ddsmlot To 0006 B2 Improved Tape And Bonding Methods$1.2M
Apr 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf - SBIR Phase III - Sensor Performance, Analysis, And Systems Engineering (spase)$8.4M
Sep 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Dynamic Autonomous Target Recognition Validation Experiments Idiq Task Order 0001$798K
Sep 2014Federal contractDefense · Simultaneous Transmit And Receive (star) Equipment$517K
Sep 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf "(STTR Phase II) Wind Turbine Clutter Mitigation"$716K
Jun 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR I - Cooperative RF Sensors$150K
Jun 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Exploitable Physics For Recognition And Classification II - STTR Phase II$750K
Jun 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR II W/ Matrix$750K
Apr 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf - SBIR I - Novel Signal Processing For Airborne Passive Synthetic Aperture RADAR$150K
Sep 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf "SBIR Iii-new Contract-reliable Assisted Target Recognition Features For Transition (raft)"- The Objective Of This Phase III Effort Is To Extend The Algorithms Developed During The Associated Phase II SBIR To Work When A Minimal Number Of Features Are Allowed To Describe A Target. The Desired Output Of This Phase III Work Is A Pattern Recognition System Using A Minimum Number Of Features As Input That Has Comparable Performance With A System Using A Large Set Of Features.$4.2M
Aug 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR I - Antenna Design For UAV$150K
Jun 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Ph II - Representation For Navigation$746K
Jun 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Radio Frequency (RF) Traveling Wave Inspection Tool$150K
Apr 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Ii-perf Predict For Airborne Passive Multistatic RADAR- The Objective Of This Program Is To Improve The Capability Of The Department Of Defense (DOD) To Predict The Performance Of Passive Multistatic RADAR Systems In Airborne Moving Target Indication (amti), Ground Moving Target Indication (gmti), And Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar) Missions.$747K
Apr 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf (STTR Phase 1) Suppression Of Wind Turbine Clutter From RADAR Data$150K
Apr 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR II Unified Move Stop Move Combat Identification$749K
Mar 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR I -exploitable Physics For Recognition&classification$149K
Nov 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR II - Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar) Aided Navigation$745K
May 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I -hf Digital Receiver- This Effort Will Develop An Over-the Horizon (othr) Receiver Design Based On Model Analysis Of The Desired RADAR Modes And Performance. The Work Will Begin By Modeling Desired Modes, Geometries, Radio Frequency Interference (rfi), And Clutter To Create An Approximate Simulation From Which Receiver Design Specifications Can Be Created. The Effort Will Use The Specifications To Guide The Architecture Selection And To Create A Complete Receiver Design That Is Ba$110K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I New Effort$150K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR I "performance Prediction For Airborne Multistatic Radar-the Scope Of The Phase-i Effort Shall Include All Aspects Of Passive Multistatic RADAR Performance Prediction And Illuminator Selection Management. This Includes Parametric Modeling, Signal Processing Implementation In Software Modeling Environments Such As Matlab, Physics-based Signal Modeling And Simulation, Visualization And Reporting.$150K
Apr 2012Federal contractDefense · Unified Move Stop Move Combat Id SBIR I$150K
Oct 2011Federal contractDefense · SBIR I - Sar Aided Navigation$150K
Oct 2011Federal contractDefense · Multi-sensor Data Fusion For Layered Sensing - SBIR I$150K
Sep 2011Federal contractDefense · New Effort, Discovery And Exploiting Behavior$498K
May 2011Federal contractDefense · Ph I Research&development$100K
Jan 2011Federal contractDefense · Real-time Dismount Detection And Tracking$100K
Jan 2011Federal contractDefense · Interrupted Synthetic Aperture RADAR (sar)$100K
Feb 2010Federal contractDefense · Matrix Research$100K
Jan 2010Federal contractDefense · Matrix Research, Inc.$100K
Jul 2009Federal contractDefense · SBIR II$840K
Jan 2009Federal contractDefense · Develop Low-cost High-speed Image Processing And Visualization Techniques For Persistent Surveillance Applications$100K
Jun 2008Federal contractDefense · Algorithm To Emulate RF Signal Of Multiple Targets For Countermeasure Technique Assessments$100K

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Federal grants#11 · top 12%

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