Where the work has actually shipped.
Across two operating companies and twenty-plus years, components, subsystems, and qualified production have moved directly to prime contractors and into DARPA, Air Force, Navy, Army, and Marine Corps programs. This page is the public-facing summary of where that work has shipped, sourced to public press and program records.
Logos and program-specific imagery are intentionally omitted on this page. Public attribution of specific deliverables and quantities is, where applicable, restricted under program-of-record agreements and prime-to-supplier confidentiality.
Direct supplier relationships with six of the major U.S. defense primes.
PolyStrata® components and subsystems — produced under ISO 9001 and AS9100D — were qualified, integrated, and delivered direct-to-prime, not through reseller channels.
BAE Systems
The deepest of the prime relationships. The original DARPA 3D-MERFS proposal was co-written with Rick Thompson, then a BAE Systems engineer (later employee of Nuvotronics, later Raytheon, currently MacroVation Board of Advisors). Co-published IEEE work with BAE engineers A.A. Immorlica Jr., R. Actis, and D. Nair. See publications →
Raytheon (RTX)
Direct work on DARPA ViSAR (Video Synthetic Aperture Radar) program, 2012 — Nuvotronics $4.2M alongside Raytheon $2M and BAE Systems $1.14M. Public source →
Lockheed Martin
Direct supplier relationship across the PolyStrata era. Specific program detail not publicly disclosed.
Northrop Grumman
Direct supplier relationship across the PolyStrata era. Specific program detail not publicly disclosed.
Boeing
Direct supplier relationship across the PolyStrata era. Specific program detail not publicly disclosed.
L3Harris
Direct supplier relationship across the PolyStrata era. Specific program detail not publicly disclosed.
Funded program work across DARPA, the services, and allied agencies.
DARPA
- 3D-MERFS (3D MicroElectrical RF Systems) — all three phases executed; DARPA Innovation Award following Phase III. Program managed by Dr. John D. Evans. Foundation of the PolyStrata® platform.
- DMT (Disruptive Manufacturing Technologies) — PolyStrata manufacturability scale-up.
- ViSAR (Video Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2012) — Nuvotronics $4.2M alongside Raytheon $2M, BAE Systems $1.14M.
U.S. Navy & ONR
- NAVSEA program work — current and historical.
- Office of Naval Research — current and historical SBIR/STTR Phase I/II.
U.S. Marine Corps & MCSC
- USMC Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) program work — current and historical SBIR Phase I/II.
- Active Phase II in materials/non-lethal effects (operating company: MacroVation).
U.S. Air Force & AFRL
- Air Force Research Laboratory program work across the PolyStrata era.
NIST
- Microfabricated Broadband Connectors for Frequencies Above 100 GHz — SBIR work referenced in NIST FY12 abstracts.
University research collaborations.
- University of Colorado at Boulder — Prof. Zoya Popović's microwave group; Prof. Dejan Filipović. Two PhD dissertations and 24+ joint publications across the PolyStrata era.
- Virginia Tech — Prof. Sanjay Raman.
- Air Force Research Lab — J. Robert Reid.
Public recognition.
- DARPA Innovation Award — Nuvotronics, following Phase III of DARPA 3D-MERFS.
- IEEE MTT-S IMS 2019 Best Industry Paper Award — "Monolithically Fabricated 4096-Element, PolyStrata Broadband D-band Array Demonstrator," in partnership with Nokia. Public source →
- Cubic's Nuvotronics Wins 2 DoD Awards for PolyStrata Tech — Via Satellite, March 2021. Public source →