Armor Embedded Metamaterial Antenna

JEM Engineering proposes a program to prototype and demonstrate the technology found feasible in our Phase I SBIR program entitled “Armor Embedded Metamaterial Antenna”. The object of the proposed program is to develop antennas that are embedded in vehicle armor, which provide ballistic performance equal to the vehicle baseline armor, along with high RF (antenna) performance that is tolerant of ballistic impacts. The proposed antenna designs comprise meta-materials, hence the name Armor-Embedded Meta-material Antenna (AEMA). The general, overall objective of this program is to design AEMAs for communications via a combined process of electromagnetic and ballistic analysis, design, and testing.