The United States Air Force (USAF) names Astrapi Corporation a C3I&N Pitch Day Finalist
DALLAS, Feb. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Astrapi Corporation is honored to be named one of only twenty companies accepted to pitch to the USAF Command, Control, Communication, Intelligence and Networks (C3I&N) track for $158,000 each in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant Phase I funding. The presentation will be to a closed-door panel of USAF domain experts at the inaugural Pitch Day event in New York City on March 6th. Astrapi will also have the opportunity to present to a larger Air Force, industry, investment, and media audience on March 7.
Astrapi's Spiral Modulation provides an innovative, structured way to dramatically improve the utilization of spectrum for telecommunications. The additional capabilities address key problems in contested environments faced by the USAF such as Low Probability of Interception and Detection (LPI/LPD) and anti-jamming of signals, as well as providing additional data throughput enabling high-definition Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Lower required signal power also enables reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements for both manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Spiral Modulation is also being developed for commercial satellite VSAT applications, funded in part by a SBIR Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Spiral Modulation is a dual-use technology that addresses commercial satellite, backhaul, terrestrial wireless, and Internet-of-Things applications.
Dr. Jerrold Prothero, Astrapi Founder and CEO, stated, "Our early Software Defined Radio results suggest Spiral Modulation will be able to match the dramatic reduction in required signal power that we have been able to demonstrate in simulation. Those results are quite encouraging since we have not yet fully optimized our approach. Since there are so many applications within the defense and commercial sectors, Spiral Modulation is positioned to solve multiple challenges that the U.S. Department of Defense faces related to how spectrum may be optimized, especially in congested and contested environments."
ABOUT Astrapi Corporation
Astrapi is the pioneer of Spiral Modulation, which opens an unexplored area for innovation at the core of telecommunications. Currently Astrapi has nine patents issued, with more pending and with international coverage. Based on a generalization of Euler's formula, the foundational mathematics for telecom, Astrapi provides fundamentally new ways to optimize the use of spectrum. By applying new mathematics to signal modulation, Astrapi is able to improve the trade-off between the four fundamental parameters in telecommunications: bandwidth, signal power, data throughput, and error rate. The resulting efficiency translates into higher spectral performance with more bits available at a lower cost.
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ABOUT the United States Air Force Pitch Day
Many mind-blowing ideas are being birthed in U.S. startup companies. In order to capture these ideas, the Pentagon must do business at the speed of innovation: inspiring and accelerating startup creativity toward national security challenges. Pitch Day is open to all ideas furthering national security in air, space and cyberspace. Our Inaugural Pitch Day will have special emphasis on three areas Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Network. USAF Special Warfare Technologies (Battlefield Air Operations Family of Systems Technologies), and Digital Technologies
ABOUT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was established by Congress in 1982 to fund research and development (R&D) by small businesses of 500 or fewer employees. Eleven federal agencies participate in the program, including the Department of Defense.
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