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Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for Protected Tactical Waveform satellite communication modems with ultra-low power consumption

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · orbanalytics.com

Sector: Defense
Total capital: $4.8M

Federal grants: $399K; 1 award · 2015; Rank in peer group#43 of 48
Private capital raised: None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts: $4.4M; 12 awards · Defense, NASA; Rank in Defense#551 of 1442
Granted patents: None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

Latest events

Mar 2015Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Lightweight AEHF Modem for Manpack Terminals$399K
Oct 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Lightweight Aehf Modem For Manpack Terminals$399K
Aug 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Lightweight Aehf Modem For Manpack Terminals$150K
May 2013Federal contractDefense · Darpa SBIR Phase I Entitled, "high Spectrum Efficiency Technologies".$100K
Jul 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II$1M
Jun 2011Federal contractNASA · With More Missions At High Data Rates Demanding Use Of Limited Spectral Resources, Nasa's Scan Office Recently Coordinated A Study To Identify A Space Communications Architecture To Support Future Missions. The Study Recommends Precoded Gmsk And AR4JA Ldpc Codes As Preferred Options In Most Space Network And Ground Network Forward And Return Links And Deep Space Network Return Links. This Modulation And Coding Pair Provides Excellent Bandwidth-efficiency And Greatly Reduced Transmitter Swap. Unf$600K
May 2011Federal contractDefense · SBIR I$149K

Show 6 earlier federal awards

Feb 2011Federal contractDefense · Reconfigurable Encoder And Decoder For High-data-rate Satellite Comm$100K
Sep 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$1.6M
Jan 2010Federal contractNASA · Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (gmsk) Is A Ccsds Standard Scheme For Space Missions Requiring Very Bandwidth Efficient Communications Using Transceivers With Strict Size, Weight, And Power Restrictions. Gmsk Provides A Constant Envelope Signal That Passes Unaltered Through System Nonlinearities, Allowing Efficient Power Amplifier Operation Without Extensive Filtering And Predistortion. Unfortunately, Current Off-the-shelf Gmsk And Related Continuous Phase Modulation (cpm) Receivers (e.g., Multi-h$100K
Sep 2009Federal contractDefense · Final Report$70K
Mar 2009Federal contractDefense · Report$100K
Feb 2009Federal contractDefense · Flexible, Adaptive, And Practical Bandwidth-efficient Waveform Design$100K

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Standing among 48 peers

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Defense · Device

Federal grantsBelow median

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Founders and team

No founders are linked to this company yet.

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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026

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What it has protected

No granted patents are on record.

USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.

Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026

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Regulatory activity · Defense

Sector-level, not company-level

11 Jun 2026Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements ThresholdsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
27 Aug 2025Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
27 Aug 2025Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Sources

Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.

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Data freshness

SEC Form D filings through Oct 23, 2026. SBIR and STTR awards through Oct 21, 2026.