SBIR/STTR Research Award
Auto-Docking Autonomous Burial Vehicle (AD-ABV)
Award amount
$2,237,120Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MAKAI OCEAN ENGINEERING INC
- Proposal award date
- 2017-04-24
- Contract end date
- 2019-02-28
- UEI
- GVLGK73C9DM1
- Solicitation number
- 2011.0
- Topic code
- N11A-T017
Research abstract
Subsequent Phase II Proposal, extension of Phase II contract N00039-12-C-0082. This contract involves the development of an underwater vehicle that can reliably and autonomously interconnect power and data cables to undersea nodes after they have been deployed. The Auto-Docking Autonomous Burial Vehicle (AD-ABV) is a cable-connecting adaptation of Makais proven ABV, which has been successfully demonstrated to install and bury subsea cables beneath the seabed.
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.
- Surface Wave Integrated Sensor System (SWISS)
- NEMO ñ Nautical ElectroMagnetic Observer
- Resilient and Rapidly Restorable Cabled Communications (R3C2)
- Autonomous Subsea Cabling and Connection System
- Resilient and Rapidly Restorable Cabled Communications (R3C2)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Underwater Sensor System Autonomous Burial and Operation
- Underwater Sensor System Autonomous Burial and Operation
- Underwater Sensor System Autonomous Burial and Operation
- Deployable Autonomous Undersea Burial System
Research funding history
51 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2025). Reported award amounts total $27,377,557. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy