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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.

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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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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