SBIR/STTR Research Award
Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS)
Award amount
$224,927Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MV INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-06-09
- Contract end date
- 2018-10-05
- UEI
- KGLMBKHC38M5
- Solicitation number
- 2017.0
- Topic code
- N17A-T030
Research abstract
Optonicus proposes development of the WALAM-ABS (Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping) 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 system will adapt high-power coherent fiber-array and adaptive beam control technologies originally developed for DoD directed energy applications. In Phase II, Optonicus will develop a fully functioning WALAM-ABS system, which will be delivered to ONR for further evaluation. Optonicus has concrete plans to commercialize this technology for DoD defense markets and civilian applications in Phase III.
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)
- Wide-Area Laser Additive Manufacturing in Metals with Adaptive Beam Shaping (WALAM-ABS)
- Control & Optimization of Multiple Illumination Characteristics (COMIC) of A Pulsed Fiber Array Laser System For Active Imaging Through Fog
Awards with the same topic code
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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