Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to hold proposers day for technology aimed at congested radio communications settings – Registration deadline: June 14

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a virtual Proposers Day about the COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) program on June 17, 2021 from 1 pm to 5 pm EDT. 

The purpose of this meeting is to provide information on the COFFEE program, promote additional discussion on this topic, address questions from potential proposers, and provide an opportunity for potential proposers to share their capabilities and ideas for teaming arrangements, according to the announcement. 

Interested participants must register for the COFFEE Proposers Day through the registration website by June 14, 2021 at 11:59 pm EDT. 

The goals of the Proposers Day are:

  1. to introduce the science and technology community (industry, academia, and Government) to the COFFEE program vision and goals, 
  2. to collect questions that DARPA may answer during the event and which will be made available in a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document maintained at https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/opportunities,  and,
  3. to encourage and promote teaming arrangements among organizations that have the relevant expertise, research facilities and capabilities for executing research and development responsive to the COFFEE program goals.

The COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) program will create an integrable radio frequency filter technology to enable wideband, high dynamic range, microwave AESAs to operate in congested radio frequency environments. 

COFFEE’s integrable radio frequency filter technology will address the combination of size, performance, and reproducibility to enable protection at every element of wideband AESAs. 

COFFEE’s filter technology will:

  • Address all microwave frequencies of a wideband AESA’s bandwidth
  • Be physically small compared to the element area
  • Maintain performance (e.g., insertion loss, out-of  -band rejection, selectivity, and power handling) compared to SoA non-integrable filters
  • Be manufacturable with low performance variability at each of the array elements.

To learn more about the project and to register for the proposer’s day, view the announcement HERE.

Published by Doug Beizer