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The Georgia Tech Research Institute’s software-defined,
electronically-reconfigurable Agile Aperture Antenna (A3) has now been tested
on the land, sea and air.
Department of Defense representatives were in attendance
during a recent event where two of the low-power devices, which can change beam
directions in a thousandth of a second, were demonstrated in an aircraft during
flight tests held in Virginia during February 2014. One device, looking up,
maintained a satellite data connection as the aircraft changed headings, banked
and rolled, while the other antenna looked down to track electromagnetic
emitters on the ground.