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RavenStar™

An Ultra-Wideband Technology Adaptable to your Mission

The RavenStar™ antenna is an innovative ultra-wideband technology that enables scalable, multi-mission radio frequency (RF) performance and includes advanced features such as jam resistance, multiple polarizations, duplex operation and beam steering.
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An Antenna Innovation
for Mission Success

Spectrum access is being revolutionized through digitization and high bandwidth electronics. Battelle's pioneering aperture technology utilizes these advances to expand capability and replace antenna farms that consume precious SWaP-C. RavenStar also provides advanced, multichannel features typically only offered through expensive and complex multi-element arrays. 

Adaptable to Your Mission


C5ISR is driven by apertures as digital radio resources. RavenStar antenna technology is revolutionizing RF and creating opportunities for mission impact through decreased platform downtime and increased platform efficiency. Battelle wants to move digital electronics to the aperture to create an open architecture solution following Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA) and VITA49.2 standards.


The Future of Multi-Function RF

  • Enables new capabilities by eliminating conventional antenna feature trade-offs, allowing significant design flexibility and delivering spectrum dominance to our warfighters  
  • Can support missions that require multiple communications methods (EW, SIGINT, IMINT, C4I, TTL)  
  • Provides advanced, multichannel features appropriate for integration with emerging, highly capable software-defined radios (SDR), which are currently impeded by narrow-band antenna capabilities  
  • RavenStar antenna technology is suitable for integration onto platforms and infrastructure in all domains—land, air, maritime and space  

Key Features

The RavenStar technology is an architecture adaptable to your mission. No other antenna has these key features:

Direction Finding

Multi Signal of Interest

Jam Resistant

Polarization Independent

Scalable

Modular

Steerable

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Featured Experts


  • Doug Thornton, Ph.D.

    Technical Director
    Doug is a Technical Director in Battelle’s National Security internal research and development program. He provides leadership in maturing and connecting capabilities with customers - emphasizing on Battelle’s ultrawideband aperture capability. Doug has been a key contributor in capturing cyber work for Battelle enabling the division to grow from 60 engineers to 200 over the past 7 years. 

  • Ray Welsh

    Computer Engineer
    Ray Welsh is a computer engineer working in Battelle's National Security internal research and development program. He has over 35 years of experience in technical RFEW which includes research, design, modeling, testing, and training of electromagnetic sensors, antenna design and implementation.

  • Mollie Engel

    Senior Program Manager, Cyber Innovations
    Mollie Engel is a Project Management Professional focused on bridging the creativity of early stage research with the rigor and discipline necessary to field capabilities. Her role at Battelle includes leading the RF team in a diverse set of programs focused on development of multi-channel and multi-band RF systems with open standard interfaces for both government and commercial applications as well as oversight and standardization of Project Management practices across the Business Line.   

     

Delivering Tomorrow’s Solutions, Today

Technology is ever-changing and the need to keep our warfighters safe is paramount. Technical Director, Doug Thornton, discusses how Battelle is delivering the future of RF multi-function with the RavenStar antenna on a recent AOC podcast.

LISTEN TO THE AOC PODCAST 

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