SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Sealing System for Rotary Engines
Award amount
$149,951Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2018-08-08
- Contract end date
- 2019-08-08
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- 2018.1
- Topic code
- AF181-034
Research abstract
Mainstream proposes to develop an innovative sealing system for remotely piloted vehicles.During the Phase I effort, Mainstream will fabricate and experimentally demonstrate the sealing system, and compare the results with a baseline engine.The development of the sealing system will be generated based on the proposed architecture, and a complete prototype will be designed, fabricated, and tested during the Phase I effort to verify system performance prior to a Phase II.The Phase I program is significant because it enables demonstration of all critical components prior to a following effort, thereby reducing technical and schedule risk. During a Phase II program, Mainstream will continue the development of the overall monitoring system and deliver prototypes systems for installation into an actual RPA system for experimental demonstration, and will result in a TRL of 8 at the end of Phase II.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Rapid ASCENT Propellant Loading Operations
- On-Demand Repair Part Manufacturing with MRAM
- Extremely Uniform, High Quality, and Isotopically Pure SiC Epiwafers for Quantum
- Compact, Deployable Water Purification System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ultra-lightweight Lubrication Free Hybrid Carbon Composite Ring-less Piston Engines for Remotely Piloted Aircraft
- Advanced Material/Sealing Concepts for Small Heavy-Fuel, Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) Propulsion Systems
Research funding history
518 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $184,860,329. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency