SBIR/STTR Research Award
Modular Thermal Management System for Electronics Enclosures
Award amount
$999,893Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2018-02-27
- Contract end date
- 2020-03-09
- UEI
- YR8FJBGXWRR1
- Solicitation number
- 16.A
- Topic code
- N16A-T014
Research abstract
The heat load from Navy combat system electronics housed in Mission Critical Enclosures (MCEs) continues to increase. During Phase I, Mainstream designed and demonstrated a modular, scalable thermal management system (TMS) for existing and future MCE cabinets with triple the cooling capacity of the legacy TMS. In Phase II, Mainstream will transition the TMS to the Navy for retrofit and next-generation MCEs with increased loads up to 15kW through innovative, cost effective heat exchanger design, cabinet integration, and qualification testing to demonstrate conformance with military requirements testing. At the completion of Phase II, we will have a production-ready, engineering-qualified cooling module to increase the cooling capability of MCE cabinets.
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.
- Magnetic Bearings for Cryogenic Fluid Management
- 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.
- Modular Thermal Management System for Electronics Enclosures
- Low-cost Thermal Management Technology for Combat Systems Computers
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