SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low-Density, Low-Volume Explosion Suppression Material for Aircraft Fuel Tanks
Award amount
$124,784Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Response Technologies, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-10
- Contract end date
- 2019-12-19
- UEI
- DK4BK6TLLN45
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- N182-121
Research abstract
Response Technologies (RT) seeks to determine the technical feasibility of a: scalable, economical, repeatable, and optimized polymeric matrix (RTPM). RTPM shall have universal fuel compatibility and could replace incumbent reticulated polyurethane foams in explosion suppression fuel tanks. RT’s process utilizes additive manufacturing to produce polymeric parts from 0.5 to 20 PCF. This will be further explored during the SOW to determine the theoretical minimum weight that meets the performance criteria of the existing ESF. RT’s solution will leverage both the quenching and absorption of heat mechanisms to prevent fuel tank explosions. The objective of this effort is to produce a proof of concept ESF replacement that significantly reduces material density, fuel displacement and fuel retention.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Manufacturing and Validation Development of RF Reflector
- Additively Manufactured A-10 Fuel Cells
- Rotorcraft Fuel Bladder Weight and Total Ownership Cost Reduction
- Low-Density, Low-Volume Explosion Suppression Material for Aircraft Fuel Tanks
- Fuel Cell Phase I Qualification and UH-1Y Crashworthy Prototypes
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Low-Density, Low-Volume Explosion Suppression Material for Aircraft Fuel Tanks
- Development of Improved Lightweight Fuel Tank Explosion Suppressant
- Low-density Multifunctional Graphene Foam as an Explosion Suppression Material
- Low-Density, Low-Volume Explosion Suppression Material for Aircraft Fuel Tanks
Research funding history
11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2021). Reported award amounts total $6,898,669. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense