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Innovative Phased Arrays
Pioneering Low SWaP-C RF Solutions
We design breakthrough
innovations in:
  • Low SWaP-Cost Antenna and
    Beamforming Technologies; and
  • Ultrawideband and Dual Band
    Multifunctional Arrays
Novaa - Redefining the State of the Art in Low Cost Antennas and Phased Arrays

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Working with other leading innovators is important to us.
We have enjoyed great success collaborating with partners on numerous projects. Call us anytime if you'd like to work together.

We love hard problems.

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Novaa is a leading innovator in Electronic Scanning Arrays

Accelerate your product to market.

Novaa excels at developing new and exciting customized antenna solutions (ESA, PESA, Reflectarrays, etc) for customers, but the ground breaking research for your product goals may have already been completed. Consider our existing spectrum of developments in low cost and multifunctional arrays that may enable a substantive reduction in development risk, costs, and timelines in your projects. In particular, our recent initiatives in high mmW, microelectronic technologies such as Antenna on Chip (AoC), System in Package (SiP), Antenna in Chip (AiP) represents unprecedented achievements up to W-Band, and a significant advance in the State of the Art of radio frequency antenna technologies.

We're always happy to brief you on our ongoing work, and how we think we can help you. Contact us to see if any of our existing low cost and extensible developments can accelerate your program's objectives. Or, whether we can rapidly develop a new antenna solution for you.

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Next-Gen Satcom & Sat IoT Solutions for Challenging Environments

Update your legacy UHF antennas

Novaa design provides extremely low cost, high data rate compact apertures for commercial SATCOM / SaT IoT

• 1–5Mbps, 6-8” BLOS terminal (10-50x faster data rate than conventional UHF terminals)

• Leverage growing NTN / Direct to Cell tech (space-based 4G / 5G)


Boost your data throughput with Novaa 's developing low-cost  SaT IoT phased array innovations

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Cost-Effective Electronic Scanning Arrays

Highly extensible, high performant and low cost, scalable designs (up to W-Band) rendering conventional, complex and expensive AESA designs as legacy.

• Cost effective, low SWaP, high performant electronic scanning upgrades to replace mechanical gimbal systems

• Low cost, high performant, low SWaP arrays for upgrades, backups / add-ons for system redundancy

• Low cost, low SWaP, common  ‘workhorse arrays’ for high volume / mass use platforms, CCA coordination, etc

Novaa is an industry leader in ground-breaking ESA innovations for all use cases in all operational environments, and notably for challenging low SWaP-C deployments

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mm Wave Technology

Low cost, extremely high data rate arrays / RFICs at mmW frequency ranges

Novaa is developing unique mmW ESA capabilities

• Compact, extremely high data rate solutions

• Next Generation SATCOM
(Q, V, and E Bands)

• High resolution W Band Radar / DVE

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RF Engineering for Defense, 5G/6G, and Industries

Novaa assists partners with a broad range of cutting edge antenna designs and technical solutions

Customers that reach out to us are seeking to resolve difficult challenges in Aerospace and Defense, Telecommunications, and Transportation industries.

Their needs are diverse, with applications spanning 5G/6G data haul, High Power Microwave (HPM), Missile Seekers, Aerial Navigation Aides, High Frequency micro antennas, imaging, ground stations, and numerous other Radar and Communication antennas and arrays, all achieving ground-breaking high performant, low SWaP-C results

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Ultra-wideband & Dual-Band Multifunctional Antenna Arrays

Novaa is a leading expert in UWB, multifunctional arrays

• Unprecedented bandwidth performance (up to 10:1 BW and more at low frequency)

• Fixed beam / sector arrays
(L-W band)

• Electronic scanning arrays
(L-Ku Band)

• Very low cost


Our first of its kind dual band array enables multi-band operation (e.g. Ku and Ka bands) on a single, low-profile ESA aperture

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Assured PNT

Anti-jam, anti-spoof, and multi-path resilient GPS (RF signal) innovation at the antenna layer enabling an extremely low SWaP-C plug and play upgrade at attritable costs for multiple platform, munitions, and use-cases

Attritable cost GPS / antennas for small unmanned systems / backups / loitering munitions

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ABOUT US

We literally wrote the chapter on Ultra-wideband Phased Arrays in Antenna Engineering

And now, building upon our foundational research, our early work experiences in NASA, and ongoing initiatives with the DoD, we are expanding into commercial markets.

2016

YEAR FOUNDED

Novaa was originally a startup out of the United States Air Force Research Lab’s Catalyst Accelerator, and an early two-time finalist in the US Army's xTechSearch competition seeking the most innovative technologies amongst 100s of companies across the United States.

We have since established our headquarters in Chicago, Illinois with a satellite office in Dallas, Texas.  

Growing+
CLIENTS & PARTNERS

With over 25 commercial and defense related contracts, our current expansion plans include operations, and partnerships throughout North America, and internationally.

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Our GOAL

Uncompromised Performance at Low Cost

Novaa provides uncompromised performance, game-changing innovation, and cost conscientious wireless RF solutions that global industries demand. We are the experts in innovative ultra-wideband antenna and RF designs.

Our goal is to build best in class applications that work in the most challenging environments, are cheap enough to deploy on massive scales, and are secure against bad actors.

We believe our work breaks the paradigm of entrenched and restrictive design approaches. These practices cause unnecessary tradeoffs that compromise either performance, cost, or both. Our focus on innovative approaches don't subject us to these same tired, conventional tradeoffs that other companies are forced to make. We think this is important to our customers.

As users of our technology, we wouldn't want to compromise.