SBIR/STTR Research Award
Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS)
Award amount
$999,931Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MV INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-03-09
- Contract end date
- 2020-07-31
- UEI
- KGLMBKHC38M5
- Solicitation number
- 17.A
- Topic code
- N17A-T030
Research abstract
Optonicus proposes development of the Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS) laser additive manufacturing (LAM) system. The WALAM-ABS metal additive manufacturing system will solve long-standing drawbacks imposed by current single-point selective laser melting LAM technology through the use of wide-area processing based on proprietary multi-beam fiber array laser systems. The proposed Phase II WALAM system will adapt high-power coherent fiber-array and adaptive beam control technologies originally developed for DoD directed energy applications. Benefits include a revolutionary 10-fold build rate increase with a 2-3-fold improvement in 3D printing spatial resolution with real time control of thermal gradients and wide area in-situ sensing of the power bed material and solidification track.
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.
- Laser Additive Manufacturing of Seven Thousand Series Aluminum Aircraft Components (LAM-STAAC)
- Test Article Printing with Laser Additive Manufacturing (TAP-LAM) for Threat Surrogate Target Production
- Scalable Adaptive Laser Array for Additive Manufacturing (SALAAM)
- Control & Optimization of Multiple Illumination Characteristics (COMIC) of A Pulsed Fiber Array Laser System For Active Imaging Through Fog
- Additional Tasks of Opportunity for Evaluation of the Impact of Beam Control for Optical Phased Array Transceivers for Laser Power Beaming Enhancement (LPBE)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS)
- Spatiotemporal Shaping for Parallel Additive Manufacturing
Research funding history
34 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2011–2018). Reported award amounts total $20,432,756. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense