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The RavenStar™ Digital Phased Array Antenna

An Active Array Antenna Enhancing Mission Success

A compact, ultra-wideband software defined active antenna array that transforms mission effectiveness by capturing insights from multiple signals across a broad spectrum, crucial for reconnaissance and defense operations.
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Revolutionary Digital Interoperability


This digital RF innovation, RavenStar, is a groundbreaking technology featuring multichannel capabilities, usually only achievable with costly and complex multi-element arrays. It significantly reduces SWaP-C through lower power consumption, ultra-wideband, and digital beam steering capabilities.

Key Benefits


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US designed and manufactured, with demonstrated multi-mission capability.

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Seamlessly integrates with existing systems for easy deployment and adaptability.

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Achieves functional agility through an open standard digital RF interface and wideband spectrum access.

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Small form factor, future proof multiband software defined antenna.

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Innovations in beamforming and interference reduction.

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Extended coverage and performance.

Key Benefits


The Future of Multi-Function RF

  • Is suitable for integration onto platforms and infrastructure in all domains—land, air, maritime and space  
  • Can support EW, SIGINT, IMINT, C4I, TTL waveforms and commercial cellular systems (such as: 4G, 5G, and beyond)  
  • Enhances mission success by providing insight into multiple signals across a broad spectrum, crucial for special reconnaissance and defense operations
  • Provides advanced, multichannel features appropriate for integration with emerging, highly capable software-defined radios (SDR)  
  • Enables new capabilities by eliminating conventional antenna feature trade-offs, allowing significant design flexibility  
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Key Features to Positively Impact Your Mission

Our RavenStar antenna system is set to enhance your mission success. Explore the key features that can make a significant difference.

Ultra-Wideband

Can operate from a wide frequency range offering unparalleled flexibility and adaptability for various defense applications.

Multi Signal of Interest

Capable of supporting different waveforms at different frequencies simultaneously, providing ultimate functional, frequency/waveform, and spatial flexibility.

Jam Resistant

Provides higher-gain, electronically steered antennas that offer performance, anti-jam, and signature management advantages over traditional omni-directional antennas.

Polarization Independent

Supports orthogonally polarized signals with 25-30dB isolation, allowing simultaneous support for different linear or circular polarizations, ensuring robust and resilient communication links in diverse environments.

Scalable

Interfaces seamlessly with both analog and digital radios/waveforms, ensuring compatibility with existing and future technologies and reducing the need for costly system overhauls.

Modular

Fits within existing systems with roll-on, roll-off capability, using the same passthrough size, ensuring easy deployment and adaptability.

Steerable

Focuses on specific emitters, reducing observability and eliminating cable loss, which is vital in challenging RF environments.

Adaptable to Your Mission

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.

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.

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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.   

     

  • Rusty Kollmorgen

    Division Manager, Defense & Material Solutions
    Rusty is a Division Manager in the Defense & Material Solutions Business Line at Battelle. He leads a team of nearly 100 technical professionals to deliver a variety of capabilities used anywhere from sea to space, spanning single system optimization to multi-node network resilience. Rusty determines funding and the infrastructure necessary to enable his team and ensures creative solutions to their clients' needs.

Unlock Next-Generation Connectivity

Battelle's RavenStar is an energy-efficient active antenna system that optimizes radio signals for maximum data rates and coverage. Its unique broadband aperture and software-defined radio in a compact form factor simplify and future-proof network deployments. How can RavenStar benefit your commercial needs?

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