September 28 - 30, 2009, Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner Hotel, Vienna, VA
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Find out your best avenues of success for creating award-winning proposals!
Small Business Innovation Research provides funding for high-tech research and development initiatives. Small businesses have often benefited from this program, allowing dedicated service providers to grow into larger businesses with several DoD contracts under their belt. How do these companies land numerous awards? It all begins with the opportunities out there. This session will guide you through the process of finding the right opportunities for your organization, and how you can use them to your advantage. This session’s leader will help you understand the approval process, and what your organization needs to do in order to land a coveted SBIR award.
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Session Leader:
Dr. Joseph R. Guerci IEEE Fellow and Warren D. White Award Recipient 2007 IDGA Advisory Board Member
As a continuation to the previous session, this workshop will delve deeper into the requirements for creating winning proposals. Hearing from an actual SBIR award-winner will allow you to learn the entire process of proposal conceptualization, and the necessary steps it takes for you to communicate your goals for successful project implementation.
At the end of this session, you should be able to come up with a checklist of requirements so that you can succeed – organizationally and financially – in creating an ideal proposal to benefit your company.
C. David Massey Director for Business Development First RF Corporation
Discover the latest in warfighter-mounted antenna systems!
Recently, there has been a growing interest in body area networks (BANs), which play an important role in body-centric wireless communications. The ability to model and simulate these networks is crucial to their design – as a complement to measurements that are essential but quite tedious and time-consuming in nature. The objective of this session is to focus on the problems of ultrawideband UWB antenna design and propagation modeling, using a versatile computational EM (CEM) solver GEMS.
This session will include illustrative numerical results for the propagation and coupling problems, and will discuss some designs for wideband antennas that make them useful for the application at hand, because of their conformal nature and desirable radiation characteristics.
What you will learn about:
Raj Mittra Professor of Electrical Engineering Pennsylvania State University
Gain insight into the design behind multi-functional, wearable antenna systems!
Current body wearable antenna systems are being designed under the Tactical Networking Communications Antennas ATO for the Land Warrior/Ground Soldier Systems Soldier ensembles to support wideband (225-1000 MHz) and broadband (1350-2700) MHz communications. These frequency bands are particularly vulnerable to signal cancellations due to multipath. Diversity techniques employed with these antennas decrease multipath and thereby increase the overall link system gain. Improved system gain translates into higher throughputs, increased range and more flexible use of the Army’s tactical radio systems. This workshop will present comprehensive design and demonstration of body wearable diversity antennas that can increase channel capacity and improve communication links. Size, weight, and power (SWAP) minimization will be the focus to realize practical diversity antennas for body-worn communications.
Session Leaders:
C. J. Reddy Chief Technology Officer Applied EM Inc.